Hindu widows will get a share of their husband’s agricultural land

Dhaka: Hindu widows will also get a share of the agricultural land left by their husbands, the High Court said.

A widow of a Hindu woman from Khulna rejected her brother-in-law’s request and issued a verdict on Wednesday (September 2). The only bank of the High Court of Miftah Uddin Chowdhury.

Md. He was the petitioner’s attorney in court. Abdul Jabbar. Lawyer Syed Nafiul Islam was against it. Lawyer Ujjwal Bhowmick was the lawyer who issued the opinion as Amicus Curiae (friend of the court) in court.

Lawyer Ujjwal Bhowmik told reporters after the verdict that it was a historic verdict. As a result of this verdict, Hindu widows in Bangladesh will be able to occupy agricultural land left by their husbands during their lifetime, the court observed. Until now, widows were the only owners of non-agricultural land. Now the rights of the widows will be established in all the property of the husband.

The lawyers said that after the death of Abhimanya Mandal from Halia village in Batiaghata, Khulna, the agricultural land he left was registered in the name of his widow Gauri Dasir. Gauri Dasir’s brother-in-law, Jyotindra Nath Mandal, filed a case to correct this record. The court dismissed his request on May 30, 1997.

Subsequently, Jyotindra Nath Mandal appealed against the verdict to the Khulna Joint District Court of Judges. Following the hearing, on March 7, 2004, the court rejected Jyotindra Nath Mandal’s application.

In 2004, he filed a civil review in Superior Court. After hearing the lawsuit, the Superior Court dismissed it on Wednesday.

Bangladesh time: 0017 hours, September 03, 2020
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