Where two persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain whether either of them, and if so which, survived the other, then, for all purposes affecting succession to property, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the younger survived the elder.
CHAPTER II INTESTATE SUCCESSION · General provisions relating to succession
Section 21: Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
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