In Brief
A widow who remarries loses her rights in her deceased first husband's property under the Hindu Widow's Re-Marriage Act, 1856. However, this bar does not prevent her from inheriting the estate of her son born from that first marriage. The Court held that a mother is a Class I heir under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 and cannot be divested of succession rights to her son's property based on remarriage. The bar on widow's inheritance applies only to her husband's property and his lineal descendants' property, not to her own children. The 1956 Act's overriding effect governs succession matters, and the mother-child relationship differs fundamentally from the wife-husband relationship. Therefore, the widow was entitled to inherit her son's estate.
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