A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court held that the amended Section 6 of the 2005 Act confers the status of coparcener on daughters born before or after amendment in the same manner as sons, with the same rights and liabilities. It also held that since the coparcener right is by birth, it is not mandatory that the father coparcener should be living as on November 9, 2005, when the amended provision came into force.
