Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma
(2020) 9 SCC 1 · 3-judge bench
A long-running dispute over whether a daughter's equal coparcenary (equal-inheritance) right under the 2005 Hindu Succession Amendment applied only if her father was still alive when the amendment came into force in 2005, or applied regardless.
The Court held a daughter becomes a coparcener by birth, with the same rights as a son, regardless of whether her father was alive on the 2005 amendment's commencement date — settling years of conflicting High Court rulings on this exact question.
Removed a major loophole that had let families argue daughters had no equal claim simply because their father died before 2005 — the ruling our own Property & Inheritance rights content relies on.
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