Does a woman forfeit her right to her parent’s property, because she converted from Hinduism to Islam? That is the question before a Delhi court, which is hearing a civil suit from a 33-year-old woman, claiming a share of the property purchased by her deceased father. Her two brothers say she no longer has any right to it.
The woman, who converted to Islam in 2013, when she married a Muslim man following the death of her first husband, a Hindu, in 2011, is seeking the court’s direction to declare her one-third owner of the property in Shahdara, Ashok Nagar, in east Delhi. However, her brothers say she cannot claim any right in the property belonging to a Hindu family, after she converted. Additional district judge Ravinder Singh, has fixed August 26, 2017, for hearing the case.
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The woman, in her suit filed through advocate Amit Kumar, says her brothers played fraud with her and executed a false deed, of her share in the property in their name. When their father and mother died in 2010 and 2008 respectively, the three siblings became joint owners of the undivided property worth Rs 20 lakhs as on date, she says. She claims in the suit that her brothers, in 2012, took her to the office of the sub-registrar under the pretext of getting the property divided into three equal shares and she blindly signed the documents in good faith.
Initially, she was getting her share of the rent collected from tenants of the property. However, after her second marriage, this became infrequent on one pretext or the other. Later, they stopped giving her any money at all, she says. In August 2015, the brothers denied her share in the property and in July 2016, they allegedly illegally tried to sell the property, she claims.
In their response to the suit, the two brothers say their sister was disqualified from inheriting any portion of the property under the provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, as she has converted to Islam after marrying a Muslim man and has a child from this marriage. They have sought dismissal of the suit as she ceased to be a Hindu now and claim that they have committed no fraud. The woman has also filed a criminal complaint against her brothers in the Karkardooma court, for alleged offences of cheating, criminal conspiracy and forgery.
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