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Supreme Court Ruling: A reiteration of Women's Rights  
The recent verdict of the Supreme Court to give daughters equal rights in Ancestral property was another step towards bridging the still prominent gap that exists between men and women in our society. The court made it clear that the Hindu Succession Act of 2005 which states that daughters and sons have equal shares in family properly will be applicable on all women irrespective of whether they were born before 2005 or not.
The Hindu Succession Act (Amendment), 2005
The Act removed gender discriminatory provisions in the previous gender discriminatory provisions and gave the following rights to women:
● The daughter of a coparcener becomes a coparcener in the same manner as a son dpes. (Coparcener is a person who has equal right in the inheritance of an undivided property.)
●  The daughter is allotted the same share as is allotted to a son
 ● The daughter has the same rights in the coparcenary property as she would have had if she had been a son
● The daughter is also subject to the same liability in the coparcenary as that of a son
The Verdict
The case in question that brought up this issue was that of a man claiming his aunts were not entitled to his grandfather's property. The man, Amar, contended that since his aunts were born before 1956 the 2005 amendment was all together not applicable to them. The district courts and the high courts agreed with his views. But, the Supreme Court bench consisting of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan stated that the amendment declared that a daughter ‘shall by birth' become a coparcener in her own right in the same manner as that of a son.
The court also observed that the 2005 amendment was carried out, ”on the touchstone of equality, thus seeking to remove the perceived disability and prejudice to which a daughter was subjected.”
The Road Ahead
This year has been a particularly progressive one in terms of removing gender inequality as this is the third judgment of the Supreme Court strengthening women's rights. In August 2017, it was held that talaq-e-biddat was not legally valid, in January 201i it was held that the legitimacy of an adult woman's marriage that was a voluntary decision could not be questioned. While we are moving in the right direction, there is still a long way to go till the time we can proudly say that women in India are no longer prey to patriarchal thinking.



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