Indian prince's descendants can claim fortune from NatWest after 70 years.

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UK ruling dismisses Pakistan’s claim to £35m in legal battle dating back to 1948.

Muslim refugees fleeing India. Partition marked a massive upheaval across the subcontinent. Photograph: AP
▼ One of the UK’s longest running legal battles has been resolved after more than 70 years, enabling descendants of an Indian princely family to collect £35m from NatWest bank.
The dispute dates back to 1948 and tumultuous events following India’s independence, when the last Nizam of Hyderabad transferred £ 1m into the account of Pakistan’s high commissioner in London.
The monarch’s family was Muslim and had resisted his state’s incorporation into Hindu-dominated India. Over seven decades, the deposit has accumulated interest and is worth around £35m.
Pakistanclaimed the money was payment for weapons that would have been used to defend Hyderabad against the Indian army. The family of Nizam VII maintained that the cash had merely been lodged abroad for safekeeping.
The case first arrived in the chancery division of the high court in London as long ago as 1954 when the Hyderabad royals challenged the bank and the Pakistan commissioner for the return of the money.
With its echoes of the Jarndyce v Jarndyce saga in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, the claim reached the House of Lords in 1957 where Pakistan successfully asserted sovereign immunity. Legal proceedings were then effectively frozen for the next 60 years.
In 2013, Pakistan decided to waive its right to sovereign immunity and launched legal action to claim the cash from NatWest. Their action triggered rival claims by the two grandsons of Nizam VII.
In a 140-page ruling handed down on Wednesday, the high court in London declared that:  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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chanakyakripa

Justice delayed....But not denied. But this is basically state money....Why should the royals get the sum & not the state???

asr335704

Finally 80 years old case is solved. Nizam's descendants will get the money and they will share it equally as the money was deposited by then ruling Nizam of Hyderabad.