Overview

• The High Court set aside the 2000 trial court decree that had granted the entire royal estate to Sajida Sultan and her descendants.
• Justice Dwivedi found the original decision relied on a 1996 Allahabad High Court ruling later overruled by the Supreme Court.
• The dispute must now be re-heard by the trial court and concluded within twelve months.
• Saif Ali Khan and his family remain unable to assert legal ownership of properties valued at around ₹15,000 crore until a new verdict.
• Rival heirs are pressing for estate division under Muslim Personal Law and a 2015 Enemy Property Act inquiry has examined whether the assets qualify as 'enemy property'.