DHABAI MARANDI Vs. BIBHUTI MARANDI @ LODO MARANDI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Learned counsel appearing for the appellant submitted that there is no custom of adoption in Santhals ( a Scheduled Tribe) and Hindu Law of Succession is not applicable to them. He relied on the judgment reported in AIR 1996 SC 1864 -Madhu Kishwar etc. The concurrent findings of fact against the appellant, inter alia, is that adoption is prevalent in Santhals of the instant case and they are Hinduised Santhals.

(2.) SECTION 2 of the Act defines Hindu which is as follows: - 2(1)(a) to any person who is a Hindu by religion in any of its forms or developments,