New Delhi: You have arrived 150 years old, is a message from the Delhi High Court on Monday to a woman who claimed to be a widow of the grandson of Mughal King Bahadur Shah Zafar-II who was looking for reparations.
The woman urged the court to ensure the red fortress, which illegally taken over by British East India Company “was handed over to him on the grounds that he was a legal heirs.
Destroying a request, justice Rekha Palli said there was no justification for uncontrolled delays After more than 150 years.
Sultana Applicant Begum said he was a widow of the end of Mirza Mohammed Bakht Bakht who died on May 22, 1980.
“My history is weak but you claim injustice is done to you by British East India Company in 1857.
Why did you have a delay More than 150 years? What did you do for years? “The judge commented.
The court said,” Everyone knows about it.
Everyone in court must read the history that he is exiled.
It is known by the world.
Why isn’t anything submitted in time? If the ancestral doesn’t do it, can he do it now? “The petition claimed that the family had been seized from their property by England after the first war of independence in 1857, after that the king was exiled from the country and had a red fortress taken from Mughal.
The court also rejected the submission made by the Petitioner’s advisor that he was a blind woman Letters because he can’t approach before.
150 years old late: HC to a woman who claimed the red fortress
