If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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