In Brief
In a family property dispute, a daughter sought to be impleaded as a necessary party in a suit regarding a subsequent family settlement, even though a partition decree had been passed earlier. The Supreme Court allowed her application, holding that despite having knowledge of the earlier partition, she should have been made a necessary party to protect her rights as a Class I heir under the Hindu Succession Act. The Court found that daughters are entitled to inherit parental property whether the parents died intestate or if any purported will cannot be proved, and that her substantive succession rights would be prejudiced if excluded from the proceedings."
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