Hyderabad, May 28 -- The Telangana High Court has dismissed a plea filed by two women seeking to implead themselves as respondents in a civil suit related to the properties of Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III, holding that reopening a compromise decree passed in 1959 was not legally permissible.

The applicants, Samana Fatima and Zainab Fatima, claimed to be great-granddaughters of Salar Jung III and sought to be added as respondents in the decades-old property dispute. They told the court that they were descendants of the former nobleman and were currently settled in Australia.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice NV Shravan Kumar recently heard the matter and passed orders rejecting their p...