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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
TopicRight to property

Topic: right to property

What Hindu Succession Act says about women’s property rights & why a larger SC bench will look into it

A 2-judge Supreme Court bench noted that larger benches have differently interpreted Section 14 of 1956 Hindu Succession Act while emphasising the need for settling the question of law.

Watch CuttheClutter: How the Socialist state took right to property & new SC order starts a correction

In Episode 1550 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta traces the evolution of property rights under Article 39(b) of the Constitution.

‘Law for acquiring property must include procedural safeguards’: SC on right to property

SC examines contours of Article 300A , which empowers state to deprive a person of property through law. Bench says absence of procedure or failure to comply would invalidate acquisition.

‘This has to go’: Tribal women in Himachal’s Kinnaur pin hopes on Murmu to scrap century-old law

Despite the SC judgment that women have equal rights in inheritance, women in Kinnaur fail to get their due and are waiting to narrate their ordeal to country’s first tribal President on 18 April.

Indian law unclear on who to back if a woman is thrown out by her in-laws

Past court judgments have been unable to clarify whether women's right under Domestic Violence Act takes precedence over the right of parents-in-law under the Senior Citizens Act.

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Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

In Nepal, young dreams of serving in Indian Army crash as Agnipath halts a centuries-old tradition

Since 1815, Nepali Gorkhas have served in Indian & British Armies, as well as in Bihar, Bengal & Assam Police. Since Agnipath scheme came in, no Nepal-domiciled Gorkha has enlisted.

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.