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lies with the Department. Now, is that the end of these changes ? By no means.
Come to Class V-A. It was introduced by the Rau Committee by an amendment of their earlier Bill. They have noted that this Class V-A should be introduced after Class V. Class V-A has been entirely omitted. I humbly suggest that it is an inadvertent omission, but inadvertent or intentional, it is absolutely damaging to the integrity of the Bill.
Then, Sir, we come to Class VI.
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Mr. Deputy Speaker : The honourable member will go on.
Mr. Naziruddin Ahmad : Then we come to Class VI, items (1) and (2)— mother’s mother and mother’s father. The mother’s mother would be preferred to mother’s father under the original Bill but they have been put together in the Departmental Bill. So they now inherit equally together. In item (3) of Class VI, the mother’s brother and mother’s sister inherit—the latter after the former under the original Bill, but under the Departmental Bill, they inherit together. Under items (4) and (5) mother’s brother’s son has been entirely left out in the Departmental Bill. Items (7), (8) and (9)— mother’s sister’s son, mother’s brother’s daughter, mother’s sister’s daughter are also entirely omitted.
Then item (3) in Class VI is also entirely omitted.
This concludes the list of inheritance in which there are no less than 20 transpositions, additions and omissions. Heirs have been entirely eliminated either intentionally or deliberately but this does not appear from the Select Committee’s report. I have been repeatedly asked by honourable Members of the Select Committee in the House to point out where the differences lie. I do not want to blame any honourable Member for not noticing them. On account of the transposition or removal from their original places the changes would not be obvious. And there is the guarantee in the report of the Select Committee that there is no substantial change. These were changes through the Departmental Bill and may have escaped the attention of the Select Committee. At least their attention was not drawn to them in the Departmental Bill. There is a very respected and capable Member, Dr. Bakhshi Tek Chand who says in his minute of dissent that the Select Committee confined their attention to the Departmental