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Supreme Court Strikes Down Caste-Based Discrimination in Prison Manuals as Unconstitutional. Prison Rules Dividing Labour and Segregating Barracks by Caste Violate Articles 14, 15, 17, 21, and 23 of the Constitution.

The petitioner, Sukanya Shantha, a journalist, filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution seeking directions for the repeal of offendi...

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Bombay High Court Allows Appeal in Succession Act Case — Appellants Granted Letters of Administration Despite Objections. Court holds that objectors failed to prove that the Will was not duly executed or that the testator lacked testamentary capacity under the Indian Succession Act, 1925.

The case involves a dispute over the grant of Letters of Administration in respect of the Will of late Dattaram Shirodkar. The appellants, who are the...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Partition Appeal Due to Lack of Evidence of Joint Family Property. The court held that the plaintiffs failed to prove that the suit property was ancestral or joint family property, and the suit was barred by limitation under Article 65 of the Limitation Act, 1963.

The appellants (plaintiffs) filed a suit for partition of property claiming it was ancestral/joint family property. The trial court dismissed the suit...

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High Court of Bombay at Goa Allows Appeal in Property Dispute — Will Partially Valid Under Portuguese Civil Code. Testamentary Succession by Bachelor Not Subject to Disposable Quota; Will Disposing More Than Testator's Share Is Not Wholly Void but Restricted to His Share.

The case involves a second appeal arising from a suit filed by the original plaintiff (since deceased, represented by legal heirs) against the appella...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Second Appeal in Property Dispute Over Temple Land — Plaintiffs Fail to Prove Ownership by Adverse Possession. The court held that the plaintiffs' claim of adverse possession failed as they did not establish exclusive possession or ouster of the defendant temple.

The dispute in this second appeal concerns a property surveyed under no.263/3 of village Tuem, Pernem, Goa. The plaintiffs, who are the appellants, cl...