MUMBAI, Sept. 4 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by five relatives of 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts accused Tiger Memon challenging the forfeiture of two flats connected to him in Kurla. The court observed that the petitioners had no right to occupy the flats and could not reopen the case, as it would lead to endless litigation. In 1980, Memon's parents, Abdul Razak Suleman Memon and Hanifa Memon, purchased the adjoining flats in Baug-e-Rehmat CHS at Kurla. In 1992, the flats were transferred to their daughter-in-law, Reshma, and subsequently to other relatives. However, no documents evidencing the transfer are available on record. The petitioners had paid the Memons Rs.6,75,000 for the flats in 1992 and annexed bank transactions to substantiate the claim. However, the registered sale deed continued to bear Tiger's parents' names. Following the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, a joint show-cause notice under the Smugglers And Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture Of Property) Act, 1976, was issued against Tiger Memon, his wife, parents, brothers, brothers' wives and his associates. The notice recorded that there were reasons to believe that the properties were illegally acquired. The notice highlighted that Abdul and Reshma were the owners of the flats but the occupants were the petitioner Zaibunissa Khan, her deceased husband, and Abdul's brother-in-law. Subsequently, the properties were forfeited via an order dated September 28, 1993. Abdul and Hanifa, along with several other relatives, challenged this order before the Appellate Tribunal for Forfeited Property, New Delhi. Meanwhile, in 1993, Tiger Memon was declared an absconding terrorist under the TADA Act. In January 1994, the TADA Court attached the flats along with other properties of the Memon family and a court receiver of the Bombay high court was appointed for the attached properties. The petitioner continued to remain in possession of the flats as agents of the receiver. They claimed to have paid a royalty of Rs.2,000 per month from 1994 until 2008 and issued public notices in different newspapers declaring that they had purchased the flats and were in exclusive possession of these. On November 4, 1999, the appellate tribunal rejected all the appeals filed by the Memons. This was challenged by Memon's relatives in 2000 in the Bombay high court, which, on March 24, 2005, dismissed the petition. In March this year, the TADA court lifted the attachment for several properties and released them in favour of the central government. Memon's relatives then moved the high court on June 25, 2025. Meanwhile, SAFEMA in July 2025 directed the petitioner to peacefully hand over the flats by August 2, 2025. Rejecting the petition, justice Ravindra V Ghuge and justice Gautam A Ankhad said Memons had failed to establish that the flats were not illegally acquired property. The bench further noted that the petitioners failed to take any step to assert ownership rights or seek a declaration of title against the Memons. "It is inconceivable that a bona fide purchaser for value would remain silent and refrain from asserting such rights for over three decades", it observed....