Bombay High Court Allows Daughter's Claim for Partition in Gond Community Ancestral Property — Burden on Defendants to Prove Custom Excluding Female Inheritance. The court held that under Section 2(2) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, the Act does not apply to Scheduled Tribes, and the burden to prove a custom excluding female inheritance lies on the party asserting it, which the defendants failed to discharge....
The appellant, Sau. Barula w/o Namdeo Kodape, filed a second appeal against the judgment and order dated 18.07.2023 passed by the learned District Judge, Chandrapur in Regular Civil Appeal No.47/2016,...
