Hindu Succession Act

Women's rights: State should mandate education, employment and not rely on fathers, father-in-laws, husbands

It seems clear that in the eyes of the law, women are meant to be cared for at all stages of their lives by men: Fathers, husbands, and if not husbands, then father-in-laws.

Man doesn't have right on asset inherited by married sister: Supreme Court

A man cannot claim right over the property inherited by his sister from her husband as the brother can neither be considered to be her heir, nor her family, the Supreme Court has said.

Rights of Muslim women against arbitrary divorce not addressed, says SC

The Supreme Court has expressed concern over Muslim women facing arbitrary divorces and second marriages of their husbands even as their first marriages were subsisting.