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Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi married Sharmila Tagore and had three children - Saif, Soha, and Saba - who inherited the property worth around ₹15,000 crore.
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan and his family faced a major setback earlier this week after the Madhya Pradesh high court set aside a 25-year-old order that upheld their right over the property they inherited, worth a whopping ₹15,000 crore, and ordered a fresh trial.
The judgment and decree passed by a trial court two decades back upheld Saif Ali Khan and his family — mother Sharmila Tagore and sisters Soha Ali Khan and Saba Ali Khan – as the rightful owners of the properties they inherited from the erstwhile rulers of the princely state of Bhopal. However, high court justice Sanjay Dwivedi has now set that order aside and has asked the trial court to conduct a fresh trial and make efforts to settle the case within a year, reported PTI.
The last ruling nawab of Bhopal - Nawab Hamidullah - had three daughters named Abida, Sajida and Rabia. Sajida married Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi and become the Nawab Begum of Bhopal. After her elder sister Abida migrated to Pakistan, Sajida inherited their parents’ property, which later went to her son Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, also known as Tiger Pataudi, married Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore and had three children - Saif Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan and Saba Ali Khan - who inherited the property worth around ₹15,000 crore.
Challenge to their inheritance
Other heirs of Nawab Hamidullah challenged the inheritance by the Pataudi siblings. Begum Suraiya Rashid and Nawab Mehr Taj Sajida Sultan, along with others had filed suits against ‘unfair’ partition of the property of Nawab Hamidullah. However, according to two separate appeals filed by them, the Bhopal district court ‘unfairly’ dismissed their suit in a judgement dated February 14, 2000.According to their lawyers, the partition of Nawab Hamidullah's personal property should have been done between them and defendants Saif Ali, Sharmila and 16 other heirs as per the Muslim Personal Law, reported PTI.
The Government of India had issued a certificate on January 10, 1962, in favour of Saif Ali Khan’s grandmother Sajida, naming her the sole successor of all the private properties of the Nawab. The certificate was cited by the Pataudi’s to retain their claim over the wealth. However, the appellants have opposed the citation in their appeal.
are we talking about 2+billion USD here?
