Mukesh Ambani, Nita Ambani’s Rs 15000 crore Antilia built on land of an…, Maharashtra State Board of Wakfs reveals SHOCKING…

Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, and his wife, Nita Ambani, are living within the Antilia, one in all the arena’s most costly inside most properties, valued at a staggering Rs 15000 crore (around USD 1.74 billion). However a contemporary affidavit filed within the Bombay Excessive Courtroom has claimed that the lavish 27-storey mansion changed into once constructed on land that belonged to an orphanage, which changed into once supplied ‘illegally’ in 2005.

Antilia constructed on ‘illegal land’?

The affidavit submitted by Sandesh C Tadvi, joint secretary to the Minority Pattern Department and performing CEO of Maharashtra Impart Board of Wakfs, states that a ‘mischief’ changed into once dedicated by the then chairman and CEO, when he ratified the sale of the orphanage land to Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on March 9, 2025, Livelaw reported.

Critically, a Bombay Excessive Courtroom bench headed by Chief Justice Manjula Chellur, in an show dated July 21, 2017, had directed the Impart Board of Wakfs to account for their stance on not easy the Charity commissioner’s permission on the sale of the orphanage land.

What stood there sooner than Ambani’s Antilia?

The land where Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia stands this present day used to residence the Currimbhoy Ebrahim Yateemkhana — an orphanage constructed by a effectively off businessman Sir Fazalbhoy Currimbhoy Ebrahim in 1895 for orphans from the Khoja Muslim group, to which Currimbhoy belonged to.

The orphanage changed into once speed by the Wakf board and in 2002, the board purchased permission to advertise to Mukesh Ambani’s Muffin-Antilia Industrial Non-public Restricted, who reportedly paid $2.5 million for the land against a market price of $18 million. Later, the Ambanis sought permission to form their enormous residence on the property, the building notion changed into once authorized by the BMC in 2003, and construction began in 2006.

Antilia-Wakf Board factual strive against

The Currimbhoy Khoja Belief, which changed into once created to work for the upliftment of underprivileged childhood, had filed an application with the Charity Commissioner, searching for permission to promote the orphanage land to Mukesh Ambani. The permission changed into once granted on August 27, 2002, and, virtually a month after the Belief had supplied the 4,532 sqm land Ambani’s Antilia Industrial Non-public Restricted in July 2002 for Rs 210.5 million against a then market price mark  Rs 1.5 billion.

Nonetheless, the then Maharashtra Impart Board of Wakfs deemed the transaction illegal and despatched a gape to Antilia Industrial citing violation of Fragment 52 of the Wakf Act, 1995, which presents with the restoration of Wakf property transferred in contravention of Fragment 51 that bars the sale of any immovable Wakf property without the sanction of the Wakf Board.

The gape changed into once challenged sooner than a Wakf Tribunal on April 22, 2004, and the CEO of the Impart Board of Wakfs settled the difficulty with the Belief for the length of the swimsuit, and the agreement changed into once reached that the trustees would accept that the land had certainly been Wakf property. The tribunal ruled that an annual contribution be paid to the Wakf Board, and the trustees attributable to this truth deposited Rs 16 lakh, as per Fragment 72 of Waqf Act, 1995,

Critically, the believe had acknowledged that the land on which Antilia stand this present day, changed into once not a Wakf property, nevertheless later retracted their claim.