Marjan Begum, 45, scanned the crowded corridors of the Supreme Court from a walkway baking under the mid-May sun, waiting for a mohori, a lawyer’s assistant. The journey from her home in Lakshmipur takes five hours by bus, and she has made it many times. It is the routine of a legal battle that is now 36 years old — one she did not begin. Her grandfather, Makbul Ahmed Mia, filed the case in 1990, after relatives allegedly forged the deed to his land.