No Disposal Of Enemy Properties Even After 73 Years Of Partition

Even after 73 years since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, the pain still lingers and so are the properties left behind by people fleeing to Pakistan. The properties remained in India where they fell victim to encroachment or illegal occupation. But everything changed with the 1965 war.
Three years later, India passed the Enemy Property Act, 1968, and the government took over the properties, land, lockers, deposits, company shares left behind by the Nawabs, Jagirdars and others, and declared them as custodians. The task of this custodian was to maintain and dispose of all these buildings, immovable enemy property.
Recently in the Lok Sabha, the government had said that a total of Rs 12,426 properties in India are vested in the custodian of Enemy Property of India under the act and their total value is about 1 lakh crore rupees. The highest number of such buildings are in Uttar Pradesh, where 5,936 buildings and land fall under 'enemy property'. A large part of this belonged to King Mahmudabad, whose father Mohammad Aamir Ahmed Khan left India in 1947 and went to Iraq. He took Pakistani citizenship in 1957.
Recently in the Lok Sabha, the government had said that a total of Rs 12,426 properties in India are vested in the custodian of Enemy Property of India under the act and their total value is about 1 lakh crore rupees. The highest number of such buildings are in Uttar Pradesh, where 5,936 buildings and land fall under 'enemy property'. A large part of this belonged to King Mahmudabad, whose father Mohammad Aamir Ahmed Khan left India in 1947 and went to Iraq. He took Pakistani citizenship in 1957.
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