NEWS TODAY 11.11.2026

 

Person has no claim in grandpa’s property held by dad, says SC

Person has no claim in grandpa’s property held by dad, says SC

AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesofindia.com 11.11.2026

New Delhi: Can a grandson claim a share in property inherited by his father from his grandfather? Supreme Court has ruled that a person becomes the absolute owner of his share in his father’s ancestral or self-acquired property and can deal with it exclusively, including excluding his sons. Ending a 29-year legal battle, a bench of Justices Augustine George Masih and Sunita Agarwal rejected a son’s plea for partition of his father’s property. The son had filed the suit in 1997, claiming the property was ancestral or joint family property. 

The court said a son’s son is not listed as a Class I heir under the Hindu Succession Act and cannot claim a share in his grandfather’s property. Referring to Section 8, which lays down succession rules when a Hindu male dies intestate, the bench said a son becomes the absolute owner of property inherited from his father, while his own son has no right by birth over it. SC said Class I heirs inherit simultaneously, to the exclusion of all others. 

“A son’s son is not mentioned as an heir under Class I of the Schedule, and, therefore, he could not get any right in the property of his grandfather,” it said. It added that 1956 law did not preserve right under personal Hindu law of a grandson to claim a share in his grandfather’s property during his father’s lifetime. Sec 8 must be read as a self-contained provision governing devolution of property of a Hindu male dying intestate, it said. Citing SC judgements, the bench rejected the argument that a son inheriting property under Section 8 holds it as karta of his undivided family. Such an interpretation would create two classes among Class I heirs, treating property as joint family property for male heirs but not female heirs, it said. The express wording of Sec 8 must prevail. Upholding HC’s order, the bench said a grandson cannot seek partition of property held by his father. The high court had ruled that when a son or daughter receives property through partition, whether ancestral or self-acquired, they become absol

4 out of 5 foreign medicine grads fail qualifier

4 out of 5 foreign medicine grads fail qualifier 

11.11.2026 TIMES BHOPALNEET

New Delhi: Nearly four out of five foreign medical graduates (FMGs) who appeared in the Oct 2026 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination, mandatory for foreign-trained doctors seeking to practise in India, failed to qualify. 

Only 9,354 candidates passed, as against 31,539 who failed, taking the pass percentage to 22.9%. The results come after months of protests by FMGs over the June examination, following which the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences announced a series of measures, based on a committee’s recommendations. However, the national FMG In-charge, said feedback suggested the Oct paper didn’t appear to follow the recommendations. — Anuja Jaiswal

400+ MBBS SEATS FIND NO TAKERS

 

SC: Pension cut only for tenure of statutory post

SC: Pension cut only for tenure of statutory post 

11.11.2026 TIMES CHENNAI

By an order of Dec 19, 2006, the finance controller, Uttarakhand PSC, fixed Lt Gen Bhandari’s salary as chairman of Uttarakhand PSC after deducting 17,627, the amount of pension drawn by him. He challenged the deduction before the HC saying the pension was for the service he rendered as an Army officer and had no connection with the role he was assigned as PSC chairman and hence the pension amount could not be deducted from his salary. 

The HC agreed with him in 2010, forcing Uttarakhand to challenge it before SC. After more than 15 years, SC decided the appeal, ruling that Regulation 7(2) had striking similarities with a similar ‘pay minus pension’ principle enshrined in a provision in UPSC Regulations in case of re-engagement of retired public servants in constitutional posts. 

The bench said deduction of the pension amount from the salary was only for the tenure of the constitutional post to which the retired govt servant was appointed and would revive after he demitted the post. Writing the judgment, Justice Anjaria said, “If the cases of the original petitioners were to be accepted and the salary could be determined by adding the pension receivable by them at the time of their retirement from the previous government service, it would have led to absurd consequences.

 “The total amount in such eventuality would exceed the actual salary payable for the post and perhaps would become more than the salary of the highest post. Therefore, by no stretch of logic it could have been contended that in the amount of salary, the pension portion was liable to be added.”

409 MBBS seats unallotted despite spl round

409 MBBS seats unallotted despite spl round 

Steep Fees At Private Colleges Likely Deterrent 

Anuja.Jaiswal@timesofindia.com TIMES CHENNAI  11.11.2026

New Delhi: As many as 409 MBBS seats remained unallotted even after the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) conducted a special stray vacancy round, with the high fee structure in private medical colleges potentially being one of the factors behind the seats remaining unfilled. 

Of the 946 vacant MBBS seats included in the special round’s seat matrix, only 537 were allotted, leaving 409 unfilled. This means allotments were made against around 57% of the vacancies, while more than 43% remained unallotted. 

The vacancies raise questions about the affordability of medical education, particularly in private colleges where fees can run into lakhs of rupees. High costs may have deterred some NEET-qualified candidates from opting for these seats, although the allotment data does not establish the reasons for individual choices. 

The 946 vacancies included 837 seats that had remained vacant after the previous stray vacancy round. Another 109 seats were added after candidates who had been allotted seats in that round failed to join their colleges. These additional cases took the vacancy count to 946 for the special round. 

Tamil Nadu and Puducherry accounted for the bulk of the vacancies, with 688 and 187 seats, respectively, in the special-round matrix. Together, the two accounted for 875 of the 946 vacancies. An overwhelming majority of the seats on offer were in deemed universities. The vacancies were heavily concentrated in a handful of private medical colleges. Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute in Tamil Nadu recorded the highest number of seats without allotments. 

Of its 188 MBBS seats listed in the special stray vacancy matrix, only seven were allotted. As many as 91 of the 95 seats in Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute in Puducherry remained unallotted, while 77 of 82 seats in Sree Balaji Medical College in Chennai went without allotments. Together, these three colleges accounted for 349 seats that did not receive allotments in the round.

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