G. NARAYANA RAJU vs G. CHAMARAJU & OTHERS

The Supreme Court ruled that under Hindu law, there is no presumption that a business owned by a member of a joint family is a joint family business unless it is shown that it was developed with joint family funds or blended with joint family property. The Court emphasized that a coparcener's separate property can only acquire the characteristics of joint family property through clear intention to waive its separate status. The concurrent findings of the lower courts regarding the business being separate were upheld, and the Supreme Court declined to interfere under Article 133 of the Constitution.