what changes has the Indian government recently made in law realating to the interheritance of land and why
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India's top court has ruled that daughters have equal rights to Hindu family property. All Hindu women now have equal rights to their father's property from 1956, when the succession law was first codified.
India's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that daughters have equal rights as sons in Hindu ancestral property.
The ruling extends the scope of legislation introduced in 2005 to cases where the father had died before the law was introduced.
"Once a daughter always a daughter...son is a son till he is married," said Justice Arun Kumar Mishra, who was heading the three judge bench.
"The daughter shall remain a coparcener [one who shares equally with others in inheritance of an undivided joint family property] throughout life, irrespective of whether her father is alive or not. Daughters must be given equal rights as sons, daughter remains a loving daughter throughout life," Mishra pronounced.
The bench was hearing a series of appeals that questioned whether the 2005 amendment to Section 6 of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 — which gave daughters equal rights in family property — has a retrospective effect.