Section 20 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 creates:

Section 20 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 treats a child in the womb at the intestate's death, if born alive, "as if he or she had been born before the death of the intestate". This is a legal fiction for the child, of either sex; it creates no new class of heirs, and the presumption on simultaneous deaths is s. 21.