Effect of adoption - No provision in Act that bars natural born son to inherit property of his natural father.

2020 (2) KCCR SN 102 (SC)
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
(Civil Appellate Jurisdiction
(From the High Court of Bombay)

Kalindi Damodar Garde (D) by LRs
Versus
Manohar Laxman Kulkarni and Others

Civil Appeal Nos. 6642-6643 of 2010, decided on 7.2.2020

�HINDU SUCCESSION ACT, 1956-Section 8-Succession-Effect of adoption-Act makes no distinction between son born to a father prior or after adoption of his father-No provision in Act that bars natural born son to inherit property of his natural father.

 Held : The natural father retains the right to give in adoption his son born before his own adoption. Therefore, if he has a right to give his son in adoption, such son has a right to inherit property by virtue of being an agnate. There was a full blood relationship between the three sons and the daughter who was born after adoption.
Appeal dismissed.