GANGTOK, India, May 11 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on April 6:
1. The Petitioners numbering a total of 101, are by birth Sikkimese women, married to non-Sikkimese men, who are citizens of India. They are aggrieved in the first instance, by Notification No.08/LR&DMD/R/2018, dated 07-06-2018, of the Land Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Government of Sikkim, which provides that any document regarding transfer of property, presented for registration by a Sikkimese woman, married to a non-Sikkimese, may ordinarily be registered. The sentence is however qualified by the words that follow viz., that,
"............ ownership of her property, on her demise, shall be governed as per the existing rules and r...