Grandfather property taxes were paid by father but uncle sold

My father paid taxes for a property for a lot of years which my grandfather gave to my uncle. My uncle did not have money to pay the taxes at that time but then three years back my uncle sold the property and made 8 lacs out of it. He gave my father only 40k. He is saying that the rest of the money got spent. Can anything be done in this case? We belong to a Hindu family.