Chandigarh, Aug. 29 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has stayed a Chandigarh court order that granted 33.33% share of erstwhile Faridkot ruler Harinder Singh Brar's Rs.40,000-crore estate to Amrinder Singh, grandson of the ruler's brother Kanwar Manjit Inder Singh.

The HC bench presided over by justice Deepak Gupta acted on the plea from Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, one of the daughters of late maharaja.

The Chandigarh court order on August 14 had come on the execution petition from Amrinder, filed after the Supreme Court judgment of September 2022, wherein the apex court had upheld an order of the Punjab and Haryana high court, distributing the royal property among legal heirs - the ruler's daughters and brother's descendants.

The proper...