Enemy Property Act | A royal property wrangle

A tribunal bid connected properties linked to the royal household of Bhopal invokes the arguable Enemy Property Act, and spotlights a decades-long ineligible tangle

HERITAGE UNDER CLOUD: The Flag Staff House and its surroundings successful Bhopal. (Photo: Mujeeb Faruqui)

Bollywood histrion Saif Ali Khan is going done a tumultuous time. But adjacent earlier the January 16 weapon onslaught connected him by an intruder astatine his Mumbai home, a Madhya Pradesh High Court bid reignited a quality implicit spot pertaining to the erstwhile royal household of Bhopal, of which Saif is simply a salient member. While nary authoritative estimation of the worth of the royal properties that Saif and his relatives person laid assertion to arsenic inheritor has been declared, it is estimated to beryllium implicit Rs 10,000 crore. Other than onshore successful assorted areas, the properties nether the scanner see salient Bhopal landmarks similar the Flag Staff House, the luxury edifice Noor-Us-Sabah Palace, the Dar-Us-Salam residential property, bungalow of Habibi and the Ahmedabad Palace.