Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Manolya case in August


By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, July 21: The AP High Court will fix a date on August 6 to take up final hearing of the case of Manolya Onur, former Miss Turkey and wife of former eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, Prince Mukarram Jah.
Manolya Onur, won a decade-long legal battle against her former husband in Hyderabad family court on June 27, 2006.
The family court ordered the prince to pay compensation amounting to approximately $ 3 million to Manolya and their 15-year-old daughter Niloufer Jah.
The court directed to pay $ 700,000 towards divorce settlement with six per cent interest from April 1996. The prince has also been ordered to repay loan of $ 300,000 that he had taken from Manolya,with sixper cent interest from 1995.
Nawab Mir Barkat Ali Khan aka Prince Mukarram Jah challenged the lowercourt's order in the High Court and the court passed and interim direction onOctober 11, 2006 that the Prince Mukarram Jah should deposit the amount in Indian Currency that is equivalent to $ 10,000 US dollars to the credit of the bank account to be furnished by Ms Manolya with Bank of Baroda, Masab TankBranch.
The court also directed that the petitioner should deposit the amount,including the maintenance amount due for the month of October, and shall continue to deposit the same on or before 10th of every succeeding month.
Later the case was pending with the High Court , however Mukarram Jah filed anpetition to expedite the hearing of the case.
The last occasion the court has decidedto expedite the hearing again he filed another petition for fixing of the date.
Thepetition came before a division bench comprising Justice B Prakash Rao and Justice G Chandraih on Monday.
The court did not inclined to fix the date and said it will decide onAugust 6 after hearing the arguments on both the side.

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