Enemy Properties in India
March 12 , 2019
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- The Central government has allowed the state governments to put enemy properties into public use.
- Enemy properties are the properties of people who migrated to Pakistan during partition and who left to China after the India- Sino war in 1962.
- The Enemy Property Act was enacted in 1968 and it regulates such properties and lists the custodian's powers.
- This act was amended in 2017 to ensure that the successors of the migrated people will have no claim over the properties left behind in India.
- Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of enemy properties of Pakistani nationals.
- Meghalaya has the highest number of properties of those who took Chinese citizenship.
- Similarly, Rs.3,000 crores worth Enemy shares are under the custody of the Custodian of Enemy Property for India.
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