Even If Daughter Is Dead, Her Husband And Children Have Right In Her Father's Property: Delhi Court

The Saket court in Delhi put a stay on the sale of the property in question or other transactions related to it until further orders. 

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New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing a property dispute case Thursday observed that the husband and children of a daughter who has died should also get share in her father’s property. 

The court put a stay on the sale of the property in question or other transactions on that front until further orders. 

The Saket court of Naresh Kumar Laka was hearing the property dispute case on Thursday, in which a man had filed a petition seeking a share in his grandfather’s property, which his late mother’s brother was allegedly denying him. 

The court said during the hearing that even if the daughter has died, her husband and their children have the right in her father's property, and that the other party cannot sell the property until the share in it is determined.

The court also observed that the mother of the petitioner was a rightful heir to the property of her father, and that he also as such has a right on one-third of the share. The court then issued directions to the authorities concerned to evaluate all properties related to the case by the next date of hearing. The judge also said the properties cannot be sold until further orders.

Hearing a separate case earlier this year, the Supreme Court had said the daughters of a Hindu man dying without a will would be entitled to inherit self-acquired and other properties acquited by the father. 

(This report first appeared on ABP News)