Daughters To Inherit Father's Self-Acquired Property In absence Of Legal Heir: SC

The Supreme Court on January 20, stated that the daughters of a male Hindu, dying intestate, would be entitled to inherit the self-acquired properties. She will have rights over properties obtained in the partition by the father and get preference over other collateral members of the family, SC further added. The judgment deals with the property rights of Hindu women and widows under the Hindu Succession Act.