The counsel for plaintiff Syedna Taher Fakhruddin, while refuting the arguments of the defendant’s counsel that conferment of nass required witnesses, informed the Bombay high court that there were instances in the succession of the Ismaili Imams where nass was conferred privately in the absence of witnesses.
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