India, June 15 -- An unidentified person was booked on Sunday for allegedly sending a threatening letter to retired Bombay high court judge Gautam Patel, demanding that he publicly withdraw his landmark 2024 judgment on the Dawoodi Bohra succession dispute. The case was registered after Patel, who had been abroad, returned to Mumbai on Sunday and approached the Gamdevi police station the same day.

In his 2024 ruling, Patel settled a long-running succession dispute within the Dawoodi Bohra community, declaring Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin the rightful Dai-al-Mutlaq, or spiritual head of the community, after the death of his father Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin in 2014. The claim had been challenged by Syedna Taher Fakhruddin, son of Khuzaima Q...