Islamabad: The Supreme Court (SC) recently announced a verdict wherein it stated that the ‘relinquishment of entitled inheritance’ by the female members of a family stood against the dictates of both shariah and public policy, according to news sources.
The 10-page judgement authored by Justice Qazi Faez Isa declared that male members of families tend to pressurise women inheritors of the family into giving up their right to own assets, which was a clear violation of the country’s law and shariah. The verdict reproduced a 30-year old statement to support itself; further stating that relinquishment of inherited properties by women stood in contradiction to the public policy – as defined in reference to the Islamic jurisprudence.
Justice Isa passed this ruling
while presiding over an inheritance dispute case filed by two sisters, who
stated that their brother had deprived them of their inheritance share. To this
effect, bench members Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and others also endorsed the said
verdict.
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