Rights Of Daughters As Coparceners: A Giant Stride Towards Gender Equality - News18
News 18Gender equality has always been the offshoot of prolonged battles both in legal fora and on the streets. A three judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra ruled that the Hindu Succession Act 2005 ensures equal rights of a daughter to be coparcener in her father’s ancestral property from the day of her birth. The discrimination as contained in Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 was removed by giving equal rights to daughters in the Hindu Mitakshara coparcenary property on par with sons. The judgment has not only made women equal right holders in their father’s ancestral property but have also accorded equal liabilities to them. The latest judgment on the rights of daughters to be coparceners to their father’s ancestral property has paved the way for a new era of equality and justice for women of this country.