Supreme Court of India
Smt. Radhika v. Aghnu Ram Mahto
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What the Court ordered
We hold that since the mother of the appellant had D inherited the suit property from the grandfather, her husband-respondent stood excluded from intestate succession to the estate left by her.
Judgment, page 3
From the headnote
Hindu Law Hindu Succession Act 1956:·Sections 15 and 16. Hindu fem ale inheriting property of great grand-father through mother-Dying intestate-Husband claiming a share in the estate-Held hus band stood excluded from succession to such property. The appellant's mother inherited the suit properties from her maternal grand-father. Later she died intestate. The claim of the respondent (father of the appellant) for half of the share as Class-I heir of his wife (appellant's mother) was rejected by the Trial Court.
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