The Bombay High Court has allowed Wadia Group chairman Nusli Neville Wadia to replace his late mother Dina Wadia as a petitioner in a case she had filed to claim the ownership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah's house at Malabar Hill. A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Anuja Prabhudessai allowed an application filed by Nusli Wadia seeking to replace his mother as the petitioner following her death last year. The Union government had opposed Nusli Wadia's plea. Jinnah House, a seafront bungalow on Malabar Hill, south Mumbai built by Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, has been caught in a legal tangle between Jinnah's daughter Dina Wadia and the Union government. In August 2007, Wadia had approached the HC claiming that being the sole legal heir of Jinnah, she should get the possession of the house. After she passed away on November 2, 2017 in New York at the age of 98, Nusli Wadia sought to replace her. The industrialist relied on his mother's will dated April 16, 2009, where he was appointed as the executor. The Union government's counsel, Adwait Sethna, opposed the application, arguing that Nusli Wadia had not obtained probate of the will, so he could not substitute his mother in the case. The HC said it is keeping this issue open, and it can be raised at the time of the hearing of the main petition about Jinnah House's ownership. Dina Wadia was the only child of Jinnah and his Parsi wife Rattanbai Petit. (With Agency Inputs) LEGAL TANGLE

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