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News: The Supreme Court held that daughters, like sons, have an equal birthright to inherit joint Hindu family property.

Facts:

The Court ruled that a Hindu woman’s right to be a joint heir to the ancestral property is by birth and does not depend on whether her father was alive or not when the law was enacted in 2005.
The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 gave Hindu women the right to be coparceners or joint legal heirs in the same way a male heir does.

Additional facts:

Hindu Succession Act, 1956

The Mitakshara school of Hindu law codified as the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 governed succession and inheritance of property but only recognised males as legal heirs.
In 2005, the law was amended and women were recognised as coparceners or joint legal heirs for partition