A lady professing to be the widow of extraordinary grandson of Mughal lord Bahadur Shah Zafar-II moved the Delhi High Court on Monday looking for that the Red Fort which was illicitly taken over by British East India Company be given over to her because she was the legitimate successor.
The supplication said the lady is the proprietor of the Red Fort since she acquired this property from her progenitor Bahadur Shah Zafar-II.
Dismissing the supplication, Justice Rekha Palli of the Delhi High Court said there was no support for the extreme deferral in moving toward the court later north of 150 years.
Candidate Sultana Begum said she was the widow of Mirza Mohammed Bedar Bakht who kicked the bucket on May 22, 1980. She said she was the widow of the extraordinary grandson Bahadur Shah Zafar-II of Delhi and his freedoms were removed by the British East India Company discretionarily and strongly. The adjudicator said, "My set of experiences is extremely feeble yet you guarantee bad form was done to you by the British East India Company in 1857. Why would that be a deferral of more than 150 years? How were you doing for such an extremely long time?"
The court said, "Everyone had some awareness of it. Everybody in the court probably read this set of experiences that he was attempting to oust. It was known to the world. For what reason didn't anything recorded on schedule? In the event that her predecessors didn't do it, would she be able to do it now?"
The appeal, recorded through advocate Vivek More, guaranteed that the family had been denied of their property by the British after the principal battle of Independence in 1857, later which the ruler was banished from the nation and ownership of the Red Fort was detracted from the Mughals.
The supplication said the lady is the proprietor of the Red Fort since she acquired this property from her progenitor Bahadur Shah Zafar-II, who passed on in November 1862 at 82 years old, and affirmed that the public authority of India is an illicit inhabitant of the property. The court additionally dismissed the accommodation made by the solicitor's advice that she was an uneducated lady because of which she was unable to approach before.
The supplication looked for course to the middle to surrender the Red Fort of Delhi to the solicitor or give sufficient remuneration to her and furthermore award her pay from 1857 to work date for supposed unlawful belonging by the public authority.