HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court on Monday issued notices to Union government, Nizam Trust and two grandsons of Nizam, Prince Mukarram Jah, and his younger brother Muffakham Jah, on a petition filed by Princess Shafiya Sakina, great-granddaughter of Nizam VII, challenging exclusion of female legal heirs from benefitting out of the 35 million pound funds of Hyderabad’s Nizam Osman Ali Khan held in London’s NatWest Bank.
Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili directed all of them to respond on the petition filed by Shafiya in four weeks, pending admission of the plaint.
Shafiya Sakina had filed a petition before the High Court alleging that the Union of India has ignored female legal heirs and taken away their property rights by entering into a Confidential Settlement with the titular Eighth Nizam, Prince Mukarram Jah, and his younger brother Muffakham Jah.
The petitioner urged the court to declare such settlement or agreement “illegal and arbitrary”. She further…