New Delhi, 2/6: In a significant ruling promoting gender equality, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held that a daughter’s marital status cannot be used as a ground to deny her the benefits of a welfare scheme if she is otherwise eligible.A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Alok Aradhe observed that the assumption that a married daughter ceases to be part of her parental family or loses dependency on her parents is “constitutionally impermissible.”
