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Mary Roy, the mother of author-activist Arundhati Roy, has passed away at age 89
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The landmark Mary Roy case in SC, which gave Syrian Christian women equal right to property
Mary Roy, the mother of author-activist Arundhati Roy, has passed away at age 89
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New Delhi | September 1, 2022 5:32:27 pm
Mary Roy mounted a legal challenge to the law after she was asked to leave her father's Ooty cottage that she had returned to, along with her two children, after her divorce. (File)
Educator and women’s rights activist Mary Roy, who passed away on Thursday (September 1), was best known for the “Mary Roy” case, the prolonged legal battle that ensured equal property rights for women from Kerala’s Syrian Christian families.
Roy, who died in Kottayam at the age of 89, was the mother of Man Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy.
1983 petition under Article 32
Denied equal rights to her deceased father’s property, Mary Roy sued her brother, George Isaac, marking the beginning of a case that is seen as a milestone in ensuring gender justice in India.
The key question before the Supreme Court was whether, in territories that once formed part of the erstwhile Travancore state, matters of intestate (a person who has died without leaving a will) succession to the property of Indian Christian community members were governed by the Travancore Christian Succession Act 1917, or by the Indian Succession Act, 1925.
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