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3. Pursuant to this Regulation, the Government appointed a Committee called the Salar Jung Estate Committee (hereinafter will be called the Committee) to administer the estate of the late Nawab. We will presently refer to the relevant terms of the Regulation as they play a lead-ins role in the context of the present enquiry. Suffice it to say here that his Committee functioned till 20-5-1959. when it was dissolved on a notification issued by the present Government.

4. Shortly after the establishment of the Committee the Nizam issued a firman appointing two Judges of the erstwhile Hyderabad High Court to hold an enquiry regarding "the Warasat and other matters pertaining to late Nawab Salar Jung". They were required to enquire into and report on the following questions:

6. This firman was assailed by one Tahera Begum, who claimed to be one of the heirs of the late Nawab, mainly on the ground that it violated Article 14 of the Constitution.

7. A Full Bench of the erstwhile Hyderabad High Court in Tahira Begum v. The State of Hyderabad ILR (1953) Hyd. 1 : (AIR 1953 Hyd 105) (FB) upheld the contention of the invalidity of the firman, being of the opinion that it contravened the equality clause embedded in Article 14 of the Constitution. It may he mentioned here that the Regulation also came incidentally under challenge as being in conflict with the rights guaranteed under Article 19 of the Constitution. But this objection was overruled by the Full Bench in the view that it did not in any way infringe the principle of Art. 19 as the Regulation was enacted primarily for the preservation of the estate of the late Nawab by administering and managing it properly pending the determination of his heirs.

8. It is worthy of note that as the late Nawab left assets also in places not amenable to the jurisdiction of H. E. H. the Nizam's Government, the Parliament of India passed a law called. "The Salar Jung Estate Administration of Assets Act (XXXVI of 1950)", which had the same object and purpose in ifs view as the Regulation.

9. Now, to follow the fortunes of the persons alleged to be the heirs of the late Nawab, Tahira Begum, who questioned the validity of the firman, instituted a suit in the City Civil Court. Hyderabad, as the step-mother's daughter of the late Nawab, claiming a share in the estate. Before she could realise the fruits of the litigation and within a fortnight thereafter she died leaving a, number o[ children. To this suit, were impleaded Syed Abdulla, father of the appellants, who was the maternal uncle of the late Nawab. Syed Abdulla died on 24-2-1954. On his death, the present appellants were brought on record as his legal representatives.

it is no doubt true that H. E. H. the Nizam, in exercise of his powers as the Sovereign Ruler, could confiscate the estate or could give directions for disposal of the properties in a way different from then1 devolution under the Shariat law. That H. E. H. the Nizam did not intend to depart from the rules of succession to the estate under the Mohammedan Law could Be gleaned from the fact that he had appointed a Commission for ascertainment of the heirs of the late Nawab. If really his intention was to dispose of the properties in a way different from the rules governing succession to the estate, it was not necessary for him to issue the firman referred to above. This discloses that the Regulation was conceived in the interest of the persons who night eventually become entitled to the assets of the late Nawab.