It seems that singer Adnan Sami’s ex-wife Sabah Galadari, who has been fighting a legal battle to claim her “marital home”, will not get anything after all.
It seems that singer Adnan Sami’s ex-wife Sabah Galadari, who has been fighting a legal battle to claim her “marital home”, will not get anything after all.
“Since I am not the rightful owner of the property according to the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), there is now no question of her wanting to claim the property,” the singer said.
According to the Enforcement Directorate’s order, the five flats and three parking spaces that Adnan had gifted her were bought illegally as he is not an Indian citizen. The subsequent transfer of the property to her is also illegal. “In the absence of a valid purchase, the gift has no legal basis and it disentitles Sabah Galadari to have legal rights over the property,” the order states.
In 2008, the singer had gifted five flats and three parking slots to Galadari, which he revoked after they separated in 2009. “He can’t gift what he doesn’t own. So now the gift is invalid,” Sami’s lawyer Vibhav Krishna told DNA on Friday. Galadari had approached the family court last year seeking complete ownership over Sami’s duplex at Oberoi Sky Garden, Lokhandwala. She had claimed that the flats were in her name and had been gifted to her by her former husband in lieu of a loan worth Rs5.30 crore.
Failing to get an order in her favour, she approached the Bombay high court, which ruled that the singer’s proposal of offering Sabah another flat in Versova was a reasonable one. The court had directed Sabah to choose between the flats, and directed Adnan to grant her access.
Galadari has written a letter to the Fema saying she has no connection with her former husband’s dealings regarding the acquisition of immovable property. “I had naturally assumed that he had complied with the formalities since he had raised a bank loan, registered the agreement, had a PAN card and share certificates,” she said in her letter.
Sami will file an appeal on Galadari’s claims, which his lawyer said were contradictory to her earlier stand. “It is clear that any one of her stories is untrue,” the lawyer said.
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