On July 17, the Supreme Court affirmed that a woman from a tribal community has an equal right to her family’s ancestral property. The Court struck down an order of the Chhattisgarh High Court, which in 2022, cited the absence of a specific customary law to deny inheritance rights to an appellant. Customary laws are generally unwritten conventions that govern the community affairs of tribal groups. Last week, however, the SC took a more expansive view of the rights of women from these communities and laid down that their exclusion from inheritance rights was discriminatory. Emphasising Article 14, which guarantees equality........

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