Pak court docket docket dismisses plea searching for possession over Raj Kapoor’s Peshawar Haveli

By Press Trust of India: A Pakistani court docket docket has dismissed a petition searching for possession over legendary Bollywood actor Raj Kapoor’s Haveli inside the historic walled metropolis proper right here inside the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which has been declared a nationwide heritage by the provincial authorities in 2016.

A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court comprising Justices Ishtiaq Ibrahim and Abdul Shakoor on Thursday dismissed the possession case of the petitioner.

The court docket docket dismissed the petition in light of an earlier judgment of the an identical court docket docket pertaining to the acquisition technique of legendary actor Dilip Kumar’s haveli in Peshawar’s well-known Qissa Khwani Bazaar, which had already been declared a nationwide heritage by the federal authorities led by the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

The Additional Advocate General of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province instructed the court docket docket that the provincial archaeology division had declared the Kapoor Haveli a nationwide heritage in 2016 by the use of a notification.

On this degree, Justice Shakoor requested the archaeology division whether or not or not that they had any paperwork or proof that indicated that the Raj Kapoor family ever lived inside the haveli.

Advocate Sabahauddin Khattak, the counsel for the petitioner, Saeed Muhammad, instructed the court docket docket that the daddy of the petitioner had purchased the mansion all through an public sale in 1969 after aggressive bidding, paid its worth and remained as absolute proprietor till the commencement of the acquisition course of initiated by the provincial authorities.

He extra claimed that there are usually not any paperwork with any division of the provincial authorities to point out that the late Raj Kapoor and his family ever lived or owned this property.

However, the bench instructed the counsel that the matter have to be taken to a civil court docket docket.

The mansion is now in a extremely dilapidated scenario and its current owners have to demolish the development and assemble a industrial plaza in view of its prime location. However, all such strikes have been stopped as a result of the archaeology division wanted to guard the mansion, defending in view its historic significance.

Raj Kapoor’s ancestral home, usually referred to as Kapoor Haveli, is situated in Peshawar’s well-known Qissa Khwani Bazaar. It was constructed between 1918 and 1922 by the legendary actor’s grandfather Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor. Raj Kapoor and his uncle Trilok Kapoor have been born proper right here.

Rishi Kapoor and his brother Randhir had visited the positioning inside the Nineties.