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The High Court has ruled that Hindu widows will get a share not only of her husband’s non-farm land, but also of farm land. A single High Court tribunal of Judge Miftah Uddin Chowdhury rendered the verdict on Wednesday (September 2) after hearing a case in this regard.
Her husband’s agricultural land was registered in the name of Gauridas, a resident of the Batiaghata area of Khulna. Her brother-in-law Jyotindranath Mandal filed a case against land registration in the Court of Assistant Judges in 1996. But the court dismissed the case. The court ruled that widowed Hindu women have no right to agricultural land even if they obtain a share of it. When the joint judge appealed to the court against this, the court dismissed the case and said that widowed Hindu women have the right to share their husband’s agricultural land. Jotindranath appealed to the High Court against this.
A lengthy appeal hearing reviewed in detail the two laws of 1938 and 1947 on the participation of Hindu widows in agricultural and non-agricultural land. At the end of the review, the High Court said that Hindu widows will get share in non-agricultural and agricultural land.
Lawyer Ujjal Bhowmik gave an opinion in court as Asicus Curiae. He said that among Hindus, in general, widows used to own their husbands’ houses. As a result of today’s verdict, Hindu widows will get a share of agricultural land from now on.
Lawyer Abdul Jabbar appeared for the plaintiff and Lawyer Syed Nafiul Islam appeared for the widow Gauridas.
Ittefaq / MAM
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