Previously Hindu widows would only get rights to their husbands’ homesteads The High Court has pronounced a verdict to the effect that Hindu widows in the country are entitled to shares in all the properties of their husbands and not just their homesteads. A single High Court bench of Justice Miftah Uddin Choudhury passed the...Read More

Hindu widows will get the shares in all the properties of the husband, not just the homestead, the High Court has said in a judgment. The court said the Hindu Women’s Rights to Property Act 1937 will dictate the inheritance of the assets. Barrister Syed Nafiul Islam, one of the lawyers in a related case,...Read More