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The High Court has ruled that Hindu widows will get a share of their husband’s agricultural land. A single bench of the High Court of Justice Miftah Uddin Chowdhury delivered the verdict on Wednesday (September 2).
Lawyer Ujjal Bhowmik helped handle the case as an Amicus Curiae (friend of the court).
He said: ‘In 1947, Hindu widows lost their share of agricultural land in a ruling of the Federal Court of India in this regard. Which was later incorporated into Bangladeshi law starting in 1972. However, as a result of today’s landmark verdict, Hindu widows regained their husband’s property after 63 years. As a result of this Superior Court decision, from now on the wives will obtain a share in all the husband’s property, including agricultural land.
By the way, according to the law in force in the country, Hindu widows could not share the husband’s agricultural land. But in 1996, agricultural land was registered in the name of the Hindu widow Nari Gauridasi of Khulna. Gauridasi’s brother-in-law, Jyotindranath Mandal, filed a case against her in the Khulna (Batiaghata) Judicial Court that same year. After the hearing, the court ruled in the case that Hindu widows have the right to her husband’s non-agricultural land but not to agricultural land. Gauridasi then appealed to the Khulna Court of Judges in 1996 against the verdict. After that request, it was decided that the Hindu widow would get his husband’s share of agricultural land.
After that, the appeal hearing in the High Court against the verdict of the Khulna Court of Judges began. The High Court rendered the verdict after a long hearing of both parties and the opinions of the Amicus Curiae. The High Court said in its ruling that Hindu widows would own his husband’s agricultural land and non-agricultural land.
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