In Brief
The Supreme Court dismissed civil appeals challenging the High Court's decision on succession rights. The case concerned whether natural-born sons of an adoptive father could inherit his estate. The Court held that under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, succession is governed solely by statute, not by pre-Act Hindu customs. A natural father's biological children retain full inheritance rights regardless of when the father was adopted, and there is no provision in the Act excluding natural-born sons from inheriting. All biological children are entitled to equal succession rights to their parents' property under the Act."
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