" In Veera Basavaraju and Others vs Balasurya Prasada Rao & Another(1), their Lordships of the Privy Council reiterated the observations made in the case of Raghanadha vs Brojo Kishoro(2) to the following effect : "But it is impossible not to see that there are grave social objections to making the succession of property and it may be in the case of collateral succession, as in the present instance, the rights of parties in actual possession dependent on the caprice of a woman, subject to all the pernicious influences which interested advisers are too apt in India to exert over women possessed of, or capable of exercising dominion over, property." Thus, the entire case law on the subject clearly indicates that the requirement for consent of a sapinda for adoption by a widow who has not obtained the consent of her husband in his lifetime was laid down, because Hindu law considers a woman incapable of independent judgment and proceeds on the basis that a woman is likely to be easily misled by undesirable advisers.