Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan and his household have suffered a major authorized setback after the Madhya Pradesh High Court put aside a 25-year-old order that upheld their declare to ancestral property price an estimated Rs 15,000 crores. The court docket has now ordered a fresh trial in the decades-old inheritance dispute involving the previous royal household of Bhopal.
Madhya Pradesh HC orders fresh trial in Saif Ali Khan’s Rs 15,000 crores inheritance dispute
The property in query traces again to the princely state of Bhopal and was inherited by Saif Ali Khan, his mom Sharmila Tagore, and his sisters Soha and Saba Ali Khan, following the demise of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, former Indian cricket captain and Nawab of Pataudi.
Court Sets Aside 2000 Decree
A Bhopal district court docket had dominated in 2000 that the Pataudi household was the rightful heirs to the property, based mostly on the succession of Saif’s grandmother, Sajida Sultan, the daughter of the final ruling Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan. However, in a brand new improvement, Justice Sanjay Dwivedi of the Madhya Pradesh High Court overturned the trial court docket’s choice, citing reliance on a precedent that the Supreme Court has since overruled.
“I am of the opinion that the trial court, without considering other aspects of the matter, had dismissed the suits, that too relying upon the judgment which has already been overruled by the Supreme Court,” Justice Dwivedi acknowledged in the order. “Thus, in my opinion, the impugned judgment and decree deserve to be and are hereby set aside.”
The High Court directed the trial court docket to re-examine the matter from scratch and permitted all events to current fresh proof in mild of current authorized developments. The fresh trial is to be performed expeditiously, ideally inside one 12 months.
Background of the Dispute
The authorized battle stems from the inheritance of the non-public property of Nawab Hamidullah Khan, the final ruling Nawab of Bhopal, who had three daughters: Abida, Sajida, and Rabia. Sajida Sultan, who married Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, was declared the inheritor to the property after her sister Abida migrated to Pakistan. The succession was formalised in 1962 when the Government of India issued a certificates naming Sajida as the only real heir.
Sajida’s son, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, inherited the property, which was finally handed all the way down to Saif, Soha, and Saba. However, different heirs of the Nawab — together with Begum Suraiya Rashid and Nawab Mehr Taj Sajida Sultan — challenged the inheritance, arguing that the partition of Nawab Hamidullah’s property was unfair and didn’t adjust to Muslim Personal Law.
Their go well with, initially dismissed in 2000, has now been revived by the High Court.
The order additionally referred to the 1949 Instrument of Accession by means of which the princely state of Bhopal merged with the Union of India. As per the settlement, the Nawab retained rights to non-public properties, and succession was to comply with the Bhopal Succession to the Throne Act, 1947.
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