In a ruling that reinforces the property rights of women under Hindu law, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday revived a 30-year-old family dispute from Yamunanagar, restoring a trial court decree that granted equal inheritance to the daughters and grandchildren of the late Jaswant Singh.

Justice Mandeep Pannu set aside a 1998 judgment that had denied the family’s claim over their ancestral home in Chhachhrauli, describing it as “perverse, contrary to law and based on misreading of the Hindu Succession Act.” The court held that the earlier decision wrongly applied a now-repealed provision to block female heirs from seeking partition of a dwelling house.

The case dates back to 1995, when Jaswant Singh’s daughters and grandson filed a suit for partition of a house left behind by U

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