Illegitimate child also has right over father’s property: Supreme Court said – the child will have to prove the relationship by getting DNA test

The Supreme Court, while giving an important decision, has also considered children born without marriage as entitled in the property of the father. The Supreme Court said that if the woman and the man have lived together for a long time, then it will be treated as marriage and the children born out of this relationship will also get the right in the property of the father.

The Supreme Court quashed the Kerala High Court’s decision in which the court did not consider a young man to be a sharer in his father’s property because his parents were not married. The Supreme Court said that both of them may not have been married, but both have lived together like husband and wife for a long time. In such a situation, if it is proved in the DNA test that the child belongs to both of them, then the child has full right on the property of the father.

this was the case
A man from Kerala had filed a case in the High Court for not getting a share in the division of his father’s property. He had said – he is not being given the share by calling him an illegitimate son. The Kerala High Court, while pronouncing the judgment, had said that the person to whom he is claiming the property, his mother was not married to him, in such a situation he cannot be considered entitled to the family property.

Rohit Shekhar proved his relationship with Narayan Dutt Tiwari

Ujjwala Sharma and Rohit Shekhar are seen with Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari in this file photo. This photo is done after the Supreme Court’s decision in his case. After Tiwari’s death, his son Rohit Shekhar has been murdered. His wife Apoorva was accused of this.

A similar case happened with Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Congress leader Ujjwala Sharma had claimed that she and Narayan Dutt Tiwari had a relationship with whom a son Rohit Shekhar was born. He had sought Rohit’s right in Tiwari’s property. Narayan Dutt Tiwari had denied the relationship in court. After a long trial, the Supreme Court ordered a DNA test. This test proved that Rohit Shekhar is the son of Narayan Dutt Tiwari. Rohit and Ujjwala were adopted by Narayan Dutt Tiwari after the order of the court.