Summary:
Agencies report that survey of 6,289 enemy properties is complete and that of the remaining 2,991 properties, which are vested with the custodian, will be completed soon. In the absence of Abida Sultan, Bhopal Nawab's second daughter Sajida Sultan was declared the heir. It cited 131 properties in Bhopal linked to the royal family, estimated to be worth Rs 5,000 crore. The 2015 CEPI letter also cited takeover of properties belonging to Abida Sultan, who once was heir apparent and eldest daughter of the last Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan. The move came after a three-year investigation by the office of the Custodian of Enemy Property of India (CEPI), a division of home ministry that handles properties of people who migrated to Pakistan..