New Delhi, Feb 2 (TIWN) A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court will examine the constitutional validity of Section 15 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956.

"The contention of the petitioner is that where a female Hindu dies intestate, the property would devolve first upon the sons and daughters and the husband and then on the heirs of the husband and it is only thereafter that the mother and the father are recognized. Section 16 specifies that among the heirs referred to under sub­-Section (1) of Section 15, those in one entry are to be preferred to those in any succeeding entry. On the other hand, in the case of a male Hindu dying intestate, Section 8 stipulates that the estate will first devolve upon the relatives specified in Class I of the Schedule", the Court had previously recorded.