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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Married daughter becomes sole legal heir for father's land without patta, her ownership rights were rejected by authorities; High Court orders to accept her claim

Himachal Pradesh High Court has ordered authorities to hand over ownership of a plot of agricultural land to a daughter who had been denied it for being married, ending a dispute that stretched across three generations of one family.

The court quashed a 2024 order that rejected the daughter's claim to land her father was sanctioned more than fifty years ago, ruling that nothing in the actual rules governing such land grants stops a married daughter from inheriting it.

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