Woman converts, brothers deny her right to property

Delhi court is hearing a civil suit of a 33-year-old woman who converted to Islam in 2013 and who is claiming a share of the property bought by her deceased Hindu father.

Her two brothers say she has no right to the property belonging to a Hindu family because she converted.

The woman married a Muslim man following the death of her first husband, a Hindu, in 2011. She is seeking the court’s direction to declare her onethird owner of the property in Ashok Nagar, Shahdara, east Delhi.

The court will hear the case on August 26.

The woman, in her suit filed through advocate Amit Kumar, says that her brothers had defrauded her.

She claimed in the suit that when their father and mother died in 2010 and 2008, the three siblings became joint owners of the undivided property worth ₹60 lakh as per current prices.

But in 2012, her brothers took her to the office of the sub-registrar on the pretext of getting the property divided into three parts and she blindly signed the papers in good faith, she said.

The woman alleged that initially she was getting her share of the rent collected from tenants. But after her second marriage, this became infrequent and later they stopped giving her any money at all, she said.

In August 2015, the brothers denied her share in the property. And in July last year, they allegedly illegally tried to sell the property, she claimed.

In their response, the two brothers say their sister was disqualified from inheriting any portion of the property under provisions of the Hindu Succession Act as she converted to Islam after marrying a Muslim man and has a child from this marriage.

They sought dismissal of the suit as she ceased to be a Hindu now and claimed they committed no fraud.