A nominee of a property in a housing society
does not automatically become the absolute owner of the property after the
death of the original owner, the Bombay High Court has
ruled in an important order.
Delivering the verdict in a legal battle that has dragged on for over 29 years,
Justice A P Deshpande said it would
be the personal law of an
individual that would determine the successor to the property
and not the nomination
under the Maharashtra Co-operative
Societies Act, 1960.