A controversy has erupted over the whereabouts of late Ustad Bismillah Khan's favourite shehnai, with his youngest son claiming that it has gone missing from their ancestral house here and police denying the claim saying it was there in their home.
Nazim Hussain, youngest of the five sons of the shehnai maestro yesterday claimed that the precious instrument was missing from their house.
He also submitted a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary office, urging him to declare their house as a heritage property. He claimed that his elder brother wanted to convert the house into a commercial complex. However, he had not mentioned the matter of missing shehnai in his letter.
"As we came to know about the special shehnai of late Bismillah Khan missing from his house and a fresh dispute among the brothers over an ancestral property, we went to the house to inquire about the entire matter and found that there was some fresh property dispute among brothers," said S S Grover, Station House Officer (SHO) of Chowk police station.
"Mehtab even gave a written confirmation in this regard to the police that the shehnai has been kept in their house and it has not gone missing," the police said.
Nazim had yesterday said that after his father's death, the special shehnai, which was kept in the house under his elder brother's custody, was missing from the house. "The silver shehnai is there in their house and police have a written confirmation from Mehtab," Circle Officer of Dashashwamedh, D P Shukla said.
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