New Delhi, June 3 -- Married daughters cannot be excluded from welfare benefits in favour of their deceased parents, the Supreme Court held on Tuesday, observing that the assumption that upon marriage a daughter ceases to be a member of her parental family is "constitutionally impermissible". A bench of justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe made the observations while dealing with a case from Amethi, where a married daughter was denied permission to run the fair price shop of her deceased mother under a 2019 Uttar Pradesh rule that excluded married daughters from the definition of family. "The impugned provision proceeds on the assumption that upon marriage a daughter ceases to be a member of, or dependent upon, her parental family. Such an...