The Madhya Pradesh Excessive Courtroom’s in India current ruling might result in the federal government gaining management over the Pataudi household’s historic properties, valued at $180billion, in Bhopal.
This transfer may see the properties of Saif Ali Khan’s household transferred beneath the provisions of the Enemy Property Act, 1968.
The court docket’s choice lifted a keep imposed on these properties in 2015, permitting the federal government to doubtlessly seize them on account of their reference to the household of Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan.
Distinguished properties concerned embody the Flag Workers Home, the place Saif spent his childhood, and different important buildings reminiscent of Noor-Us-Sabah Palace, Dar-Us-Salam, and Kohefiza Property, amongst others. These belongings are linked to the Nawab of Bhopal’s household, particularly to the household’s legacy following Partition in 1947.
The court docket dominated that the statutory treatment beneath the amended Enemy Property Act, 2017, applies to the case, opening the door for the federal government to make a declare over these properties. The choice additionally included a 30-day window for representations from the involved events, notably from the household.
The Enemy Property Act permits the central authorities to accumulate properties belonging to people or households who migrated to Pakistan after the Partition. On this case, Hamidullah Khan, the final Nawab of Bhopal, had three daughters.
One daughter, Abida Sultan, migrated to Pakistan in 1950, whereas the second daughter, Sajida Sultan, remained in India and married Nawab Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi. The authorized declare for the properties was tied to the truth that Abida Sultan’s migration made the belongings doubtlessly eligible as “enemy properties.”
Regardless of the authorized complexity, the household’s authorized inheritor, Sajida Sultan’s grandson, Saif Ali Khan, inherited a portion of those properties.
Nevertheless, the federal government has now invoked the Enemy Property Act as a result of migration of Abida Sultan. In a ruling from 2019, the court docket recognised Sajida Sultan because the authorized inheritor, however the newest court docket choice has reignited the household’s ongoing property dispute.
Bhopal’s district collector, Kaushalendra Vikram Singh, has introduced plans to look at possession data courting again over 72 years.
As a part of these developments, residents residing on the Pataudi household’s properties are involved about their future. With a possible authorities acquisition looming, many worry eviction or adjustments to their tenancy standing.
Beforehand, Saif Ali Khan was brutally attacked by an intruder at his Eleventh-floor Mumbai condo.
The actor intervened in a confrontation between the attacker and considered one of his housemaids, and was stabbed six occasions.
Rushed to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, Saif underwent a number of surgical procedures to deal with accidents to his neck and take away a 2.5-inch knife lodged in his backbone. The actor was discharged from the hospital yesterday.