Child Born To Muslim Couple Before Marriage Not A Legal Heir: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

Child born prior to the marriage of Muslim parents is not a legitimate child as per Mahomedan law and the child could not be treated as a legal heir, the Madras High Court has held.A bench of Justice R. Subbiah and Justice P. Velmurugan quoted Muslim law and said an illegitimate child is considered to be the child of its mother only, and as such it inherits from its mother and its relations,...