JUDGMENT

MOHAN, J.: ( By this intervention application the intervenors seek to:

(i) restrain the Union of India from making any payment of the amount of Rs. 180 crores to the Nizam of Hydrabad for the purchase of the Jacob Diamond and other priceless jewels which, according to him, are State property;

(ii) in the alternative to direct the recipients of the said sum of Rs. 180 crores to deposit in a separate Bank account or in fixed deposit;

(iii) to appoint a Commission to investigate into the true ownership of the Jacob Diamond and the other priceless jewels claimed to be the private property of the Nizam of Hydrabad, and if found to State property the Union of India should acquire and take possession of the same without any payment whatsoever;

(iv) declare the Jacob Diamond as private property of Nizam of Hyderabad, as State property;

(v) declare the priceless jewels as Regalia and antiquities and art treasures.

2. The main dispute relates to the jewels belonging to the two Trusts, namely HEH The Nizams Jewelry Trust and HEH The Nizams Supplementary Jewellery Trust. The writ petitions and the connected civil appeals were disposed of by an order dated 25th April, 1989 referring the same