Dhaka, July 5 -- In a significant legal setback for Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan and his family, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has overturned a two-decade-old trial court verdict, ordering a retrial in the high-profile Bhopal royal property dispute worth an estimated Rs 15,000 crore.

The case revolves around the inheritance claims to the vast estate of the late Nawab of Bhopal, Mohammad Hamidullah Khan, whose descendants - including Saif Ali Khan, his sister, and veteran actress Sharmila Tagore - have been seeking partition and possession of the ancestral properties since 1999.

A single bench of Justice Sanjay Dwivedi ruled that the 2000 judgment by the Bhopal District Court, which dismissed the family's civil suits, was based on an ou...