Dada family of South Mumbai locked in property dispute worth crores. Two booked under new law against superstition and black magic say allegations are false.A fight for ancestral assets worth crores of rupees has grown murkier after the brothers in a wealthy south Mumbai family accused their nephew, a Canadian national, of resorting to black magic to claim his share of the property.Masood Dada, the oldest of three brothers, has complained to a magistrate that his nephew, Salman Amin, sent an email to Salman's sister with a picture depicting how Salman can overpower a snake. Salman asks if his uncles know that he plays with death every day.“Hi Sauda (Salman's sister), this is the level of power your brother has achieved through his knowledge of the Quran,” the email reads. “Even animals and reptiles recognise that. It spat its venom on my forehead before he went into my mouth.... A black one comes every night into the little room that I pray, in Rukaiya Manzil; he is about 3-and-a-1/2 feet long and a baby king Cobra…. Alas if your mamus (Masood and Usman Dada) knew and recognised I play with death every day of my life.” The picture was forwarded to Masood.Another accused in the case is Masood’s late brother’s wife Zarina Dada. In his complaint to a court, on the basis of which an FIR was registered, Masood said that Zarina also resorted to black magic, which included placing lemons covered with red oxide in the “family’s path”. He has alleged that her latest endeavour has been to call Salman from Canada.The duo have been booked under the Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and Other Inhuman, Evil and Aghotri Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013. The Act, which seeks to fight superstition and black magic, was introduced late last year after activist Narendra Dabolkar, who fought against such practices, was shot dead.The Dadas are owners of several properties spread across Mumbai, including their plush residence at Breach Candy, Rukaiya Manzil. The civil dispute is for their property at Lamington Road, which is where their offices are. Masood is an electronics dealer.“The cops initially refused to register a complaint, which is why we approached the court, which ordered an FIR to be registered. We have given them their share of the property, but they have still been harassing us.” Masood told Mirror.Amin has now approached the sessions court for anticipatory bail, saying these allegations are simply meant to keep him from claiming his mother’s share of the property after she expired last November. “They had earlier filed a case for possession of illegal arms against him and the police found no evidence to that effect, after which he was granted anticipatory bail. They have now resorted to this to keep him from getting his rightful share. All the allegations against him are false,” his advocate Ganesh Gole told Mirror.During the hearing of the anticipatory bail plea, Masood’s lawyer Rizwan Merchant said the family had already given Zarina her share of the property.Zarina Dada’s daughter Nasreen told Mirror, “This complaint was filed after a receiver was appointed in the property dispute. They have been filing false complaints so she doesn’t get her share of the property. She is 72 and has already got anticipatory bail. There should be laws that restrain people from filing such frivolous complaints in property disputes.”The court, while granting interim relief to Amin, observed that the dispute between Masood and Zarina was a longstanding one. The case will now be heard on August 28.