India, Sept. 15 -- The Delhi High Court has held that grandchildren do not automatically acquire rights over their grandparents' property inherited by their parents.

A bench of justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav held that the share inherited from parents constitutes an individual's absolute property.

The court delivered the verdict on Tuesday, dealing with a man's petition seeking rejection of a suit filed by his daughter, claiming share of the property he has inherited from his father.

The woman's grandfather, who owned a property in southwest Delhi's Janakpuri, passed away without leaving a will in 1994. He was survived by his widow, a son, and a daughter. Following the death of the grandmother in 2023, the woman initiated a partition...