Their discrimination based on the customary law of inheritance is unconstitutional, unjust, unfair and illegal.
Petitioner Nos.2 and 3 in the first writ petition sought police protection for their lives and interim directions were given.
The first petitioner is an Editor of a Magazine Manushi espousing the causes to ameliorate the social and economic backwardness of Indian women and to secure them equal rights.
Even usufructuary rights companyferred on a widow or an unmarried daughter become illusory due to diverse pressures brought to bear brunt at the behest of lineal descendants or their extermination.
Petitioner Nos.2 Smt.
Muki Dui are respectively widow and married daughter of Muki Banguma, Ho tribe of Longo village, Sonua Block, Singhbhum District in Bihar State.
WITH Write Petition C No.219 of 1986 J U D G M E N T RAMASWAMY, J. These two writ petitions raise companymon question of law whether female tribal is entitled to parity with male tribal in intestate succession?
Sonamuni and 3 Smt.
