The Supreme Court on Friday granted an interim stay on a Madhya Pradesh High Court order remanding a decades-old property dispute involving the royal estate of Bhopal’s last Nawab, Hamidullah Khan, to the trial court for fresh adjudication.
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A Bench comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and Atul Chandurkar issued notice on a plea of Omar Faruq Ali and Raashid Ali, descendants of the elder brother of Nawab Hamidullah Khan, against the High Court’s order of June 30.
The petitioners have challenged the High Court’s decision to set aside a February 14, 2000, trial court judgment that upheld the exclusive rights of Nawab’s daughter Sajida Sultan, her son Mansoor Ali Khan (former India cricket captain), and their legal heirs, actor Saif Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Saba Sultan, and veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, over the estate.
The High Court said the trial court’s ruling was based on a 1997 Allahabad High Court verdict, which was later overturned by the Supreme Court in 2019.
