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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday (June 2) ruled that a daughter’s marital status cannot be used to deny her benefits under a welfare scheme if she is otherwise eligible, calling such exclusion unconstitutional and rooted in gender stereotypes.

A bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe said that that excluding married daughters from the definition of “family” for allotment of fair price shops under compassionate ground would be unconstitutional.

The bench observed that the assumption that a married daughter ceases to be part of her parental family or loses dependency on her parents is “constitutionally impermissible,” Deccan Herald reported.

“Marriage neither extinguishes the bond between a daughter and her parental family nor........

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