India, April 3 -- A Wadala resident will soon get possession of a 285-square-foot flat, around 48 years after her late husband made a partial payment for purchasing it for their daughter. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday ordered the legal heirs of the flat owner, the late R Subramaniam, to complete the transaction that began in May 1978 and hand over possession of the flat to the legal heirs of the buyer, MK Madhavan.

Madhavan had paid Rs.30,000 out of the agreed consideration of Rs.50,000 for the flat in 1978. However, his legal heirs will now have to pay an additional amount of Rs.25 lakh, over and above the balance consideration of Rs.20,000. A single-judge bench of justice Firdosh Pooniwala ordered the payment of the additional amo...