Ahmedabad: A court in Ahmedabad, Gujarat dismissed a lawsuit filed by 3 Hindu daughters, claiming that Hindu daughters also have a right on the property after their mother's death. Actually, the woman had accepted Islam before she died. On this, the court said that the Hindu children of the woman cannot be her heirs, according to Islamic laws. Only the Muslim son of the woman should be considered her first-class heir.

Actually, in 1979, the husband of a woman named Ranjan Tripathi passed away. Ranjan Tripathi's husband used to work in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) at that time. Ranjan was pregnant at the time of her husband's death and she already had two daughters. Ranjan got the job of a clerk in BSNL on compassionate grounds. However, Ranjan did not stay with her family for long and her three daughters were looked after by her paternal family.

Later Ranjan Tripathi left his family to live with a Muslim man. The three daughters filed a case against Ranjan for maintenance in 1990 on the basis of abandonment. In the petition filed by the daughters, they claimed that their mother Ranjan was given a job by the department to take care of the children. The daughters won this case. This dispute was also settled later, but the daughters claimed that he (Ranjan) had not given up his rights in his retirement benefits.

Let us inform you that, after accepting Islam, Ranjan married a Muslim man in 1995 and changed her name to Rehana Malik in her service records the next year. The couple had a son. Before his death in 2009, Ranjan named his son as his successor in his service book. After the death of Ranjan alias Rehana, his three daughters filed a claim in the city civil court claiming their mother's provident fund, gratuity, insurance, leave encashment, and other benefits, claiming that being the biological daughter, she was a first-class citizen. are heirs.

The three sisters presented conflicting claims regarding their mother's relationship with a Muslim man, her conversion to Islam, and the legitimacy of their son to be her heir, but the court rejected their arguments. On the aspect of the law, the court said that if the deceased was a Muslim, his first-class heirs cannot be Hindus. The direct heirs of a deceased Muslim can only be Muslims.

The court further noted that the daughters' mother had converted to Islam before her death and married a Muslim man, giving birth to a son. Since the mother converted to Islam and the daughters are Hindus, the Hindu plaintiffs are not entitled to the inheritance even after being the heirs of the deceased Ranjan alias Rehana.' The court also said that according to Hindu inheritance laws, Hindu daughters are also not entitled to inherit any rights from their Muslim mothers.

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