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Women's Day: An uphill battle for tribal women in Himachal for rights to ancestral property

Shimla, March 7: Wajib-ul-Urj, a customary law among tribals which fosters inequality in the close-knit community, is still followed religiously in Himachal Pradesh's remote mountainous districts. This is despite the Supreme Court clarifying on several occasions that daughters will be treated on par with sons and will be granted equal coparcenary rights in their father's property.