This notice was published on page 12 of The Times of India (Hyderabad edition) dated 24 August 2025.
This Public Notice is published and issued against the Public Notice dt. 05-07-2025 published by C. Tulasi Krishna & Vadeendra Joshi (Advocate) in Times of India newspaper under instruction of the family and estate of Late Nawab Mir Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah Bahadur: That, a Reply to notice dt. 22-08-2025 has been issued by my client Mr. Mir Milad Ali Khan S/o. Late Nawab Imdad Jah Bahadur (Grandson of Late HEH, The Nizam, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur) refuting the false and unlawful claims made in a recent public notice by representatives of Mr. Azmet Jah claiming his alleged coronation as the IXth Nizam, contending that the Asaf Jahi Dynasty follows a clear tradition and custom of primogeniture. This claim is untrue, baseless, and blatantly misleading, as is evident from the root of the immediate subject under debate involving the notice (triggered by his demise). Nawab Barkat Ali Iman was himself not a successor through primogeniture, nor were earliest Nizams, and the concept of primogeniture as a standard has never been followed. Our reply asserts that the concept of primogeniture cited by Mr. Azmet Jah is contrary to the principles prescribed in Islam, which upholds Ijma (family consensus) as the basis for such succession. The notice also highlights that an almost complete royal clan of legal heirs oppose the said rendering it invalid and without religious or familial legitimacy.
Nawab Raunaq Yar Khan has been acknowledged by an overwhelming and largest section of the family of the Asaf Jahi dynasty across descendants of the I to VII ruling “Asaf Jahi Nizams” as the rightful Nizam of the Asaf Jahi Dynasty in accordance with Islamic tradition, democratic process, and family. Any unilateral or unsupported claims to the title will be legally contested and opposed by the family. Any future claims made without proper consensus shall be challenged legally and publicly. It is therefore brought to the notice of the general public that the said Azmet Jah Bahadur claiming himself to be the IXth Nizam is false, baseless, and illegitimate. This claim is totally unilateral and rejected by almost all the entire family members who have recognized and accepted Nawab Raunaq Yar Khan as the IXth Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty. You may not take objection to your decision to adopt primogeniture to succeed to a defunct title within the Mukarram Jah household, but Ijma, an Islamic concept between concerned and connected members of the extended dynasty, as a guideline for succession is what stands good presently, in law, in democratic India.
It is pertinent to note that the anointment of Nawab Raunaq Yar Khan as the Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty is not only ceremonial but functional. The royal dynasty has recognized the Nizam of the Asaf Jahi Dynasty on these principles.
This clarity from my client side was considered imperative to derail any clandestine advantage you may aim at gullible prospective investors by transplanting the internal decisions of your father’s immediate family with a decision of the extended dynasty for your pecuniary benefits. Azmet Jah cannot in any way formally succeed to the presently fictitious title of “Nizam of Hyderabad” as it was abolished constitutionally. Neither can he formally coin and adopt any wishful title unilaterally with an assorted handful of persons with your common interest.
Date: 24-08-2025
Place: Hyderabad
Muhammad Veqar Hussain, Advocate
Office at #16-2-743/1/C/1, Flat No. 102,
Tayyab Heights Apt., Saidabad, New Malakpet,
Hyderabad-500059
Ph: 80088 18854
For reference, The Times of India Notice can be viewed here; the original Public Notice appears on page 12.
