Jinnah left his Bombay house to his sister; India took it as evacuee property, and his daughter died with her claim still pending

Muhammad Ali Jinnah built South Court on Malabar Hill in 1936 for 2 lakh rupees and lived there until he left for Karachi. Gandhi and Nehru met him there in 1944 and 1946. His will of 30 May 1939 left the house to his sister Fatima. His only daughter Dina was born in London in 1919. In 1938 she married Neville Wadia against her father's wishes, and they did not speak for years. Jinnah asked Nehru to lease the house to a European consulate and died in September 1948 before the deal was done. Fatima moved to Pakistan and was declared an evacuee. India took the house under Bombay evacuee property law, with notifications in 1949 and 1955. The British Deputy High Commissioner lived there from 1948 to 1983. Pakistan has asked for the house since 1979. In August 2007, aged 88, Dina Wadia petitioned the Bombay High Court. She said her father died without a valid will and that she was his sole heir under Hindu law as applied to the Khoja community, or under Shia law. The government called the claim barred by delay. In 2010 the court ordered the status quo. The case was last heard on 28 July 2017. Dina Wadia died in New York on 2 November 2017, aged 98. The house belongs to the Government of India and stands empty^†.