Hindu widows will get the most effective to advertise the lands for licensed necessities: Courtroom (Representational)
Dhaka:
For the first time, Hindu widows in Bangladesh might have the rights to every agricultural and non-agricultural lands of their ineffective husbands after a excessive court docket docket dominated of their favour, in response to a media report.
The Bangladesh Extreme Courtroom on Wednesday dominated that no separation has been made between the agricultural and non-agricultural lands. So Hindu widows have the rights to the lands of their husbands, The Daily Star reported.
Beneath the current norm, Hindu widows throughout the nation are solely entitled to their spouses’ homesteads and by no means each different property like agricultural land.
“Hindu widows might have the rights to every agricultural and non-agricultural lands that belonged to their husbands. They could even get the most effective to advertise the lands for licensed necessities all through their lifetime,” the report talked about, citing the court docket docket order.
The choice by the Extreme Courtroom acquired right here following a civil revision petition filed by civilian Jyotindranath Mondal from Khulna district troublesome a lower court docket docket verdict.
On March 7, 2004, Khulna’s joint district select delivered judgement in a case filed by Jyotindranath, saying that Gouri Dasi, widow of Jyotindranath”s elder brother Avimannu Mondal, will get correct to the agricultural land of her late husband.
The land had been recorded throughout the title of Gouri after Avimannu died in 1996.
Jyotindranath had filed the case with the court docket docket of an assistant select in Khulna troublesome the doc of the land throughout the title of Gouri Dasi in 1996.
