The Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a 2014 suit challenging the position and appointment of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin as the leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Community. In 2016, following the death of Khuzaima Qutbuddin, his son Taher Fakhriddin continued a legal suit, asserting that his father had been given the authority by a secret "nass" to be the Syedna's …
After a ten-year long legal battle, the Bombay High Court has upheld Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin's position as “Dai-al-Mutlaq” or the religious leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community, dismissing his nephew Taher Fakhruddin's claim. Khuzaima Qutbuddin, Syedna Burhanuddin's half-brother, challenged Saifuddin's succession, claiming that Syedna Burhanuddin had secretly conferred 'nass,' the official declaration of succession, upon him in 1965. Fakhruddin claimed …
