Hindu Adoption & Maintenance Act, 1956–Secs. 10 & 11–Adoption of a person aged 23 years, having children–Neither any such custom nor the factum of adoption was proved–Adoptive father contested the suit by filing the written statement and stated that he never adopted the plaintiff as a son–During the pendency of suit adoptive father died–Plaintiff did not perform the ritual and other ceremonies of the deceased–Held, cannot be held the adoptive son of deceased.
