Saif Ali Khan Property: The Supreme Court gave great relief to Saif Ali Khan in the property dispute related to the heritage of Nawab Hamidullah Khan of Bhopal. The order of the High Court has been interim -stay.
Saif ali khan property: On Friday, the Supreme Court took a big decision in the ongoing controversy over the family property of film star Saif Ali Khan. The court imposed an interim stay on the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, in which the decades -old property dispute associated with the royal property of Bhopal’s last Nawab Hamidullah Khan was ordered to be sent to the lower court for a fresh decision.
A bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Atul Chandurkar issued a notice on the petition of Omar Farooq Ali and Rashid Ali, descendants of Nawab Hamidullah Khan’s elder brother. The petition was filed against the High Court’s order of June 30. It has challenged the decision of the High Court in which the lower court’s decision was rejected on 14 February 2000. The verdict retained the property of Nawab’s daughter Sajida Sultan, her son Mansoor Ali Khan (former Indian cricket captain) and her legal successors, Saif Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Saba Sultan and Sharmila Tagore.
The High Court said that the decision of the lower court was based on the 1997 Allahabad High Court’s decision. It was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2019. Instead of implementing the example of 2019 and decisively a decision of the case, the case was sent to the lower court by the High Court.
The petitioners’ counsel Devdutt Kamat said that the High Court’s remand order is contrary to the criteria mentioned under the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC). The case began in 1999 with civil cases filed by the Nawab’s extended family members. It included the late Begum Suraiya Rashid and her children Mahabano (late), Neelofar, Nadir and Yawar, and another daughter of Nawab Nawabjadi Qamar Taj Rabia Sultan.
These people had demanded to divide the Nawab’s personal property and get possession. The lower court ruled in favor of Sajida Sultan and said that the property is not under Muslim personal law. It will be divided according to constitutional provisions.
Let us know that after the Nawab’s death in 1960, the Government of India issued a certificate in 1962. In this, Sajida Sultan was recognized as a real successor of Sajida Sultan under Article 366 (22) of the Constitution. However, people carrying the case to the court argued that the Nawab’s personal property should be distributed among all the legal heirs under the Muslim Personal Law.
The defendants, including Saif Ali Khan and his family, argued that the rule of senior lord applies in succession. Sajida Sultan has both inherited the royal degree (throne) and personal property.