Bengaluru, Dec. 26 -- The Karnataka high court has urged the Union government to review a key provision in the Hindu Succession Act , introduced through the 2005 amendment, cautioning that the change has created confusion over the inheritance rights of Hindu widows and mothers. Flagging what it described as an "inadvertent gap" under the 2005 law, the high court said the amended law, while intended to strengthen the rights of daughters in ancestral property, fails to clearly spell out the position of widows and mothers, both explicitly protected under the original 1956 law. A bench of justices R Devdas and B Muralidhara Pai said that the problem lies in the drafting of the amended Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act. The 2005 amendment wa...