Section 21
Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths.
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
About this Act
An Act to amend and codify the law relating to intestate succession among Hindus.
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.