Importantly, in 2014, the Office of the Custodian of Enemy Property for India in Mumbai issued a notice declaring the Pataudi family’s properties in Bhopal as “enemy property.”Later, in 2016, an ordinance by the central government clarified that heirs would have no rights over the concerned enemy properties.Saif Ali Khan challenged the 2014 notice in the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s principal bench in Jabalpur in 2015 and obtained a stay. However, a decade later, on December 13, 2024, the High Court’s single-judge bench disposed of the petition, consequently vacating the stay.After the death of Bhopal’s Nawab Hamidullah Khan in 1960, his eldest daughter, Abida Sultan, was considered the heir to the property. However, as she had moved to Pakistan in 1950, the central government declared her second daughter, Sajida Sultan, as the heir to the property.Sajida, the Nawab Begum of Bhopal, was married to Nawab Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the Nawab of Pataudi (Haryana). Saif Ali Khan reportedly inherited the property, along with the title of Nawab of Bhopal, following the death of his father, Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the last Nawab of Pataudi, in September 2011. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi was the son of Nawab Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi and Sajida Sultan.
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