<h1>Property rights for tribal women: equal inheritance entitlement affirmed under equality principles despite customary silence.</h1> A tribal woman and her legal heirs are entitled to equal shares in ancestral property where no lawful customary prohibition exists. Custom cannot be invoked to deny female succession when it is silent; such exclusion lacks rational basis and conflicts with equality and non-discrimination principles. Read with the statutory succession framework, the principles of justice, equity and good conscience require parity of inheritance rights for the woman's legal heirs.