Written by Gurnur Kaur
Edited by Himanshi Shivani
The discrimination against daughters is the topic in highlights since forever. The heartwarming reality of society is that the so-called father's angel has no home of her own, before marriage she is expected to be a part of her father's house and after marriage to be part of in law's. You would have hardly heard this reality but actually, both the home which she does not own is maintained and built the house to home by daughters only.
Delightfully, according to recent order passed by Supreme Court on Tuesday, August 11, now daughters have the Right to Coparcenary if they are born before September 9, 2005, whether their fathers are alive or not as Section 6 of Hindu Succession Act was forced after the mentioned date only. Coparcener is a term used for a person who assumes a legal right in the parental property by birth only. Succession planning is an important tool used by business families for business continuity, ownership control, management, and distribution of wealth and conflict resolution.
Clearly, this means that daughters born before or after amendment are given the same rights and liabilities as sons. The homemakers now can raise their voice against alienation from their ancestral property. Daughters can go longer be deprived of the land in which they have equal rights as to their brothers. They can rightly say that they own a house of their own and nobody can pressurize them for living with threats for not having a home if in-laws set them off the house because usually in these scenarios daughters are the only people forced to adjust and so as to protect and keep up the name of the blood-related family they never take a stand for themselves, sometimes, even suppress and continue living with difficulties but no more. The equality of sexes now accomplished is such a blessing in disguise.
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