The family’s land was in Kotana village of Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh, which the Indian government had declared as “enemy property”, British media reported
Dr. Akhtar Gulfam Director News Dawn TV +Editor-in-chief Daily Dawn
London: India has auctioned the family land of Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf. According to the British media, this family land of Pervez Musharraf was in Kotana village of Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh, which the Indian government called “enemy property”. was kept The bid for the thirteen bigha land was three and a half times higher than the base price.
The land was auctioned online and fetched many times the base price. He said that the base price of the thirteen bigha land was set at Rs 39 lakh 6 thousand, but the bidding ended at Rs 1 crore 38 lakh 16 thousand three and a half times more.
This piece of land was the last land of Pervez Musharraf’s ancestors in Uttar Pradesh. It is in Kotanabangar village of Barut tehsil in Baghpat district. He also had other family lands in Kutana village, which have already been auctioned.
During his first visit to India as President of Pakistan in 2001, Pervez Musharraf visited Nahrwali in Daryaganj, Delhi, where he was born.
In the year 2005, Musharraf’s mother went to visit Nahrwali Haveli with her son Javed Musharraf and grandson (Musharraf’s son) Bilal. Even before that, in 1982, she died in Daryaganj.
Residents of Kutana village say that a relative of Pervez Musharraf stayed in Kutana for eighteen years after the establishment of Pakistan before moving to Nauru Pakistan. He had two hectares of land in the village, which was declared “enemy property” in 2010.
‘Enemy property’ refers to property left in India by Pakistani and Chinese nationals.
The Enemy Property Act was enacted in 1968 after the 1965 war with Pakistan to regulate such properties. The same was done after the Sino-Indian War of 1962 for the property left behind by those who went to China. The ownership of these properties was transferred to a government department known as the Custodian for Enemy Property in India.
