Bombay HC ex-judge, his family face threats over 2024 Dawoodi Bohra succession row verdict

MUMBAI: (Jun 8) Retired Bombay High Court Judge Gautam Patel and his family have allegedly been subjected to repeated threats in India and in Britain over his 2024 verdict in a case on the succession row in the Dawoodi Bohra community.

As per family sources, over the past ten months, they have been getting multiple violent threats through letters with the most recent one received on June 5 by Justice Patel's daughter based in London.

The letters, according to the sources, demanded that Justice Patel record and release a video of himself on YouTube stating that he had delivered the verdict on the Syedna (a title given to the spiritual leader of the community) issue "under duress and coercion".