Honesty is best policy Honesty 02 May 2022
Advocate Y.K. Mehrotra (Advocate) 02 May 2022
Hello Sir
You can lodge a complaint (FIR) against your stepmother.
Defamation is competent of both criminal and civil nature. You can approach by sending a legal notice and in furtherance can approach the civil court to prove defamation.
Although my advice here is to lodge an FIR, then let the charges be framed and once framed you can send a legal notice for civil defamation for the trauma. However, the chances are meagre as your father has to testify for such defamation which does not seem possible here.
The correct approach for claiming your share in the ancestral property is to opt for partition as a coparcenor,