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Union of India - Section

Section 21 in The Hindu Succession Act, 1956

21. Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths.—

Where two persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain whether either of them, and if so which, survived the other then, for all purposes affecting succession to property, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the younger survived the elder.