SC rejects no-dowry plea, denies daughter share in property

The SC has drawn the curtains on a woman’s long fight against her five brothers — from the lower courts till the apex court — to get a share of her father’s landed property on the ground that she was not given any dowry at the time of her marriage over half a century ago. The woman — Shakuntala — argued before the apex court that her father was strongly opposed to the custom of dowry and ardently campaigned against it. “Consequently, at the time of marriage, he did not give anything by way of dowry,” she said and argued that as an implication she must have her due share in her father’s properties. A Bench comprising Justices A K Mathur and Aftab Alam, after examining the records found that the property, over which she was litigating against her brothers, was bought after her marriage in the year 1951.

The Times of India 15th April 2008 Delhi P15

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