<p>Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has ruled that daughters of Hindu persons who died after December 20, 2004, are entitled to equal shares in ancestral property.</p><p>The significant order was issued on a petition filed by female heirs seeking equal rights to their father’s ancestral property.</p><p>“On and from the commencement of the Hindu Succession (Amendment Act), 2005, the daughter of a Hindu who died after December 20, 2004, in the state of Kerala is entitled to equal share in the ancestral property, subject to the exception provided under sub-section (5) of Section 6 and the Explanation to sub-section (5) of Section 6,” a bench of Justice Easwaran S said in the order issued on July 7.</p>.'Spy' vlogger in Kerala tourism row: BJP leader's picture with Jyoti Malhotra a shot in the arm for CPM. <p>The court held that Section 3 (birth in family not to give rise to rights in property) and Section 4 (joint tenancy to be replaced by tenancy in common) of the Kerala Joint Hindu Family System (Abolition) Act-1975 are repugnant to Section 6 of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act-2005, and thus cannot have any effect.</p><p>The court opened its order by quoting a verse from the Skanda Purana, “One daughter is equal to 10 sons. Whatever phala (merit or good result) a person attains by siring and raising 10 sons, the same phala is attained by begetting a single daughter,” it said.</p>
<p>Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has ruled that daughters of Hindu persons who died after December 20, 2004, are entitled to equal shares in ancestral property.</p><p>The significant order was issued on a petition filed by female heirs seeking equal rights to their father’s ancestral property.</p><p>“On and from the commencement of the Hindu Succession (Amendment Act), 2005, the daughter of a Hindu who died after December 20, 2004, in the state of Kerala is entitled to equal share in the ancestral property, subject to the exception provided under sub-section (5) of Section 6 and the Explanation to sub-section (5) of Section 6,” a bench of Justice Easwaran S said in the order issued on July 7.</p>.'Spy' vlogger in Kerala tourism row: BJP leader's picture with Jyoti Malhotra a shot in the arm for CPM. <p>The court held that Section 3 (birth in family not to give rise to rights in property) and Section 4 (joint tenancy to be replaced by tenancy in common) of the Kerala Joint Hindu Family System (Abolition) Act-1975 are repugnant to Section 6 of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act-2005, and thus cannot have any effect.</p><p>The court opened its order by quoting a verse from the Skanda Purana, “One daughter is equal to 10 sons. Whatever phala (merit or good result) a person attains by siring and raising 10 sons, the same phala is attained by begetting a single daughter,” it said.</p>