India Wins Hyderabad Nizam Case Aganist Pakistan – Free PDF Download

KUDOS H. SALVE!

• It was the second high-profile victory for Harish Salve while representing India in a case since he won a reprieve for Kulbhushan Jadhav at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
• Khawar Qureshi QC was Pakistan’s barrister in both cases.

HISTORY

OPERATION POLO

• Operation Polo is the code name of the Hyderabad “police action” in September 1948

BEFORE THE ANNEXATION

• The Nizam apprehended a military action from India and sought arms and weapons from Pakistan. Nawab Moin Nawaz Jung, the finance minister and the foreign minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad transferred Sterling Pound 1,007,940 to Pakistani High Commissioner to the UK Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola’s account on the behalf of the Nizam.

AFTERMATH

• Under compelling circumstances, Hyderabad was annexed in 1948. Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, later, said that his minister transferred money without his approval.
• In 1954, he moved the UK court seeking release of the money deposited with the Pakistani high commission. But Pakistan did not intend to oblige and invoked sovereign immunity.

•  In 1954, Nizam of Hydrebad Mir Osman Ali Khan filed a case in a UK court for recovery of £1 million (now valued at £35 million) from Pakistan, which blocked the case then.
• Verdict has now come in India’s favour.
• A day after a UK court ruled in India’s favour over money belonging to the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad, now worth 35 million pounds, one of his grandsons in Hyderabad said the amount will have to be shared among around 120 descendants.
• Nawab Najaf Ali Khan, grandson of Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur and president of the Nizam Family Welfare Association, there 120 members of the royal family who have their right of share in the money

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