Which section of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 deals with rights of a child in the womb to inherit to…

Section 20 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 provides that a child "who was in the womb at the time of the death of an intestate and who is subsequently born alive shall have the same right to inherit to the intestate as if he or she had been born before the death of the intestate". The inheritance vests in the child from the date of the intestate's death.

Section 19 deals with how two or more heirs take, section 21 with the presumption in cases of simultaneous death, and section 22 with the preferential right to acquire property.