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DAUGHTERS HAVE EQUAL BIRTHRIGHT TO INHERIT PROPERTY The amendment to the  Section 6 of Hindu Succession Act ,  1956 , which came into force from September 9, 2005 as  Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 , conferred the status of  “ coparcener ”  to a daughter born before or after the amendment in the same manner as a son.  After this, an issue was raised regarding the retrospective effect of the amendment, means, whether this amendment is effective if the parent/father died before it has come into force. In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court ruled that as per the Hindu Succession (Amendment)Act, 2005  daughters would have equal Coparcenary rights in Hindu Undivided Family properties even if they were born before the 2005 amendment to the  Hindu Succession Act, 1956   and regardless of whether their father coparcener had died before the amendment,  i.e. it would have  retrospective effect . Before the amendment, daughters wer...

CITIZENSHIP (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019 On 11 December 2019, the Citizenship ( Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India. It amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 by providing Indian Citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, that had entered India by 31 December 2014, and had suffered  "religious persecution or fear of religious persecution" in their country of origin were made eligible for citizenship. As per Citizenship Amendment Bill, 1955 there are 5 ways in which Indian Citizenship can be acquired, such as : 1. Citizenship by Birth 2. Citizenship by Descent 3. Citizenship by Registration 4. Citizenship by Naturalisation 5. Citizenship by incorporation of territory The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 1955 made it mandatory for a person to stay in India for at least 11 years to acquire citizenship naturally, which was later reduced to 6 years, but in the...