term which may extend to seven years, or to impute, unchastity to a woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
entitled to separate residence and maintenance from her husband if she is unchaste or ceases to be a Hindu by conversion to another religion
letter dated
April 1, 1954, in which he charged the respondent with
unchastity and leading a fast and reckless life, from that
date the desertion ... therefore, in-
clined to read the expressions used therein as imputing
unchastity to her. On the other hand, the learned judges of
the High Court
deceased husband, is liable to forfeit that estate by reason of unchastity? and
2nd.--Whether the forfeiture, if any, is barred ... Mitter, who were of opinion that the defendant had, by reason of unchastity, forfeited her right in her husband's property; but in consequence
plaint filed and as the
records depict, Venkayamma levelled specific allegations of unchastity
against Lakshmamma and contended that by reason of the fact of leading ... life of unchastity, Lakshmamma lost all her rights in her husband's estate.
The said suit was however dismissed and an appeal being
time of the death of her husband Alamelu was leading an unchaste life and lived in adultery with a person at Kumbakonam. This fact ... husband in the same interest as the husband himself had and her unchastity would not disqualify her from acquiring that interest, 'The material provisions
alleged that though the defendant was his lawfully married wife she became unchaste and permanently left the plaintiff's protection in the year ... surviving brother was his only heir and that the defendant Pannasashi being unchaste was excluded from inheritance.
This application was opposed by the widow Pannasashi
contended that her rights to profits were forfeited because she had become unchaste and that her unchastity deprived her not only of profits in future ... denied having married Tara Chand. She indignantly repudiated the charge of unchastity and insisted that the rights conferred upon her by the instrument dated
husband's death the appellant led for some time an unchaste life and gave birth to a child but that since then ... contended in the Court of first instance that, on account of the unchaste life which the appellant had led for some time after her husband
raised in this special appeal is whether, according to Hindu law, an unchaste mother is entitled to succeed to the properties of a deceased ... being established that she became unchaste before the succession opened out to her?
2. The District Judge in the lower Appellate Court has answered this