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Would Tread Cautiously On Challenges To Provisions Of Hindu Succession Act: Supreme Court

The apex court said it would refer the parties before it to its mediation centre to explore a settlement.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has observed that while examining challenges to provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, it would tread the path carefully, and stressed that the Hindu social structure and its basic tenets have been in existence for thousands of years, and it would not want to adversely affect it.

The matter came up for hearing on Wednesday before a bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan. The bench was hearing petitions challenging certain provisions of succession under the 1956 Act. The provisions prioritise a woman’s husband’s

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