Often drunk, he would ride through the city streets with his drunken companions, trampling innocent people, committing acts of violence and immorality.
Ismail Khan, leader of the Foreign Party, attempted several times to challenge the minister's authoritarian actions but failed.
But he was kept under close surveillance and soon was shifted to the Baghdad Palace and confined to solitary imprisonment for some reflection on his actions and the alleged misconduct.
[4] He simultaneously recalled the most important leaders of Deccan clique, such as Jamshed Khan Amir-ul-Mulk, Shah Ibrahim, and Mustafa Khan and sent them into the fortress Lohgarh to take up the two sons of Burhan Nizam Shah II with whom his deceased uncle had the two princes was to be sent to the court to decide the one of these princes should reign.
[4] Three or four days after Hussain Nizam Shah II's imprisonment, Mir Tahu returned from Lohgarh with the two princes, named Ismail and Ibrahim.
Hussian Nizam Shah II was executed in the Balghad Palace on 1589 A.D his head was put on a spear and planted on one of the bastions of the Fort.