VidhiSangh

Hindu Succession Act, 1956

Section 9: Order of succession among heirs in the Schedule

Chapter II — Intestate Succession

9. Among the heirs specified in the Schedule, those in class I shall take simultaneously and to the exclusion of all other heirs; those in the first entry in class II shall be preferred to those in the second entry; those in the second entry shall be preferred to those in the third entry; and so on in succession.

Source: official text of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956.