India, April 2 -- The daughter of Bikaner's last king, Dr Karni Singh, has moved the division bench of the Delhi High Court, seeking over 23 years of unpaid rent from the Centre for occupying the historic Bikaner House.

Rajyashree Kumari Bikaner, the heir, is demanding arrears of rent from October 1991 to December 2014.

On Tuesday, a bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela adjourned the case to July, directing Kumari's counsel to submit key documents, including the 1950 merger agreement between the Government of India and the late Maharaja, and an October 1951 communication in which the Centre acknowledged Bikaner House belonged to Rajasthan and agreed to pay one-third of the rent to the Maharaja as an ex gratia...