Basuri Shaw And Anr. vs New India Assurance Co. Ltd. And Ors. on 13 November, 2006
In this perspective the decision of this Court in the case of Monorama Devi (supra) can not be read to have laid down a principle of law that under Section 166 only the heirs as specified in the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 will be entitled to maintain a claim petition or such of the heirs as are entitled to succeed to the estate of the deceased as per the said Act would be entitled to receive the compensation.