can't deny tribal women right to inheritance, sc underscores
New Delhi, July 18 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that denying a tribal woman or her legal heirs a share in ancestral property on the sole ground of gender is both unreasonable and unconstitutional. The judgment affirmed equal inheritance rights for women in tribal communities, even in the absence of statutory personal law, reversing a long-standing assumption that customs restricting such rights must be presumed to exist unless proven otherwise.P10...
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