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PETITIONER: AMEERUNNISSA BEGUM AND OTHERS
Vs.
RESPONDENT: MAHBOOB BEGUM AND OTHERS.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 09/12/1952
BENCH: MUKHERJEA, B.K. BENCH: MUKHERJEA, B.K. HASAN, GHULAM SASTRI, M. PATANJALI (CJ) AIYAR, N. CHANDRASEKHARA BOSE, VIVIAN
CITATION: 1953 AIR 91 1953 SCR 404 CITATOR INFO : R 1953 SC 215 (19) E 1955 SC 352 (9) RF 1956 SC 60 (13) F 1958 SC 538 (12) D 1962 SC1100 (17) R 1963 SC 222 (51) R 1974 SC1044 (14) R 1975 SC1069 (23) RF 1992 SC 1 (132) D 1992 SC1277 (85,91,96)
ACT: Waliuddowla Succession Act, 1950-Act providing for settle- ment of disputes as to succession between private persons and prohibiting recourse to courts of law-Validity-Equality of the law Discrimination-Reasonableness-Constitution of India, 1950, Art. 14 (1).
HEADNOTE: The continuance of a dispute even for a long period of time between two sets of rival claimants to the property of a private person is not a circumstance of such unusual nature as Would invest a case with special or exceptional features and make it a class by itself justifying its differentiation from all other cases of succession disputes, and the fact that a non-judicial authority had made a report against one set of the claimants is not a reasonable ground for depriving them by legislation of their o...