HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad High Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, Telangana and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan on a petition searching for cancellation of the 99-year lease of Nizam’s Kothi Asafia Palace at Bolarum. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan had were given the 28-acre Nizam assets on lease at a nominal hire of Rs 1 consistent with annum in 1985.
The state had signed the lease agreement with the Bhavan’s control and the latter established Rajaji International Institute of Public Affairs and Administration on the assets at Bolarum.
Hearing a petition filed via Shafiya Sakina, the nice granddaughter of Nizam VII, Mir Osman Ali Khan, difficult the power the state over a assets that belongs to them, Justice AV Sesha Sai of the High Court issued notices to the Centre, its defence estates officer, Telangana and president of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and gave them three-week time to file their replies.
Petitioner counsel Sripada Prabhakar said neither the then united AP nor Telangana possess authority to lease out the property as the state used to be now not the owner. The Centre used to be beneath an obligation to offer protection to Nizam’s homes, but failed to take action when AP leased it out to third events. Citing an unregistered lease deed being proven via the authorities, the petitioner expressed doubts over the veracity of the document itself. “The 28-acre assets is proven within the cantonment register as Nizam assets,” Shafiya Sakina said in her plea. At the time of merger of Hyderabad State within the Indian Union in 1950, it used to be agreed that despite the fact that all homes would vest with the state, the Nizam could be allowed to retain his personal homes.
However, she lamented, in her plea, that a succession battle erupted among the legal heirs of the Nizam after his demise in 1967. Taking good thing about the disunity among the family members of Nizam, Bhavan’s control asked the then AP government to allot them the land for setting up a world institute, she said. The state then entered into a lease deed with the Bhavan’s control. She sought cancellation of the lease and ship ownership of the property to her. In the interregnum, the Bhavan’s institute must be requested to pay ₹25 lakh as hire monthly, she said.
The state had signed the lease agreement with the Bhavan’s control and the latter established Rajaji International Institute of Public Affairs and Administration on the assets at Bolarum.
Hearing a petition filed via Shafiya Sakina, the nice granddaughter of Nizam VII, Mir Osman Ali Khan, difficult the power the state over a assets that belongs to them, Justice AV Sesha Sai of the High Court issued notices to the Centre, its defence estates officer, Telangana and president of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and gave them three-week time to file their replies.
Petitioner counsel Sripada Prabhakar said neither the then united AP nor Telangana possess authority to lease out the property as the state used to be now not the owner. The Centre used to be beneath an obligation to offer protection to Nizam’s homes, but failed to take action when AP leased it out to third events. Citing an unregistered lease deed being proven via the authorities, the petitioner expressed doubts over the veracity of the document itself. “The 28-acre assets is proven within the cantonment register as Nizam assets,” Shafiya Sakina said in her plea. At the time of merger of Hyderabad State within the Indian Union in 1950, it used to be agreed that despite the fact that all homes would vest with the state, the Nizam could be allowed to retain his personal homes.
However, she lamented, in her plea, that a succession battle erupted among the legal heirs of the Nizam after his demise in 1967. Taking good thing about the disunity among the family members of Nizam, Bhavan’s control asked the then AP government to allot them the land for setting up a world institute, she said. The state then entered into a lease deed with the Bhavan’s control. She sought cancellation of the lease and ship ownership of the property to her. In the interregnum, the Bhavan’s institute must be requested to pay ₹25 lakh as hire monthly, she said.
HC notice over Nizam palace lease
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