Plea for compulsory bequest to protect orphaned grandchildren under Muslim law

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A lawyer has urged the Law Commission to recommend a change to Muslim inheritance law for orphaned grandchildren. The proposed amendment would allow children whose parent died before a grandparent to receive the share their parent would have inherited.

Lawyer urges Law Commission to recommend that the Union Ministry of Law and Justice introduce a Bill in Parliament to amend the 1937 Act so that if a parent dies before a grandparent, the children receive the share their parent would have received.