MP High Court Sets Aside Order Granting Saif Ali Khan ₹15,000 Cr in Bhopal Estate Dispute; Orders Retrial

The Madhya Pradesh High Court set aside the trial court's 2000 decree recognising Saif Ali Khan, his mother Sharmila Tagore, and sisters Soha and Saba as the sole heirs to Nawab Hamidullah Khan’s personal estate estimated at ₹15,000 crore and remanded the case for fresh adjudication.

Justice Sanjay Dwivedi held that the trial court had wrongly relied on a 1996 Allahabad HC judgment, which the Supreme Court later overruled.

The case, involving Muslim Personal Law succession and the Bhopal Merger Agreement, must now be reheard within a year. The order directs trial court consideration of new evidence and current legal principles. (Begum Suraiya Rashid & Others v. Begum Mehr Taj Nawab Sajida Sultan & Others)