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Government approves amendments to enemy property law
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 04:41:34 PM,
IANS
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Enemy
property bill withdrawn
Giving in to
vehement opposition by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the
Samajwadi Party, the government Monday dropped a controversial bill
to amend an act - that deals with properties left behind by those
who migrated to Pakistan in 1947 - just before it was to be
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New Delhi: The government Wednesday approved
amendments to an over 40-year-old legislation to ensure the
protection of interests of those Indian Muslims who have inherited
the properties of relatives who migrated to Pakistan in 1947.
The amendments to the Enemy Property Act, 1968, which got the nod
by the union cabinet in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, will have to be cleared by parliament in the
upcoming winter session.
"The union cabinet today approved the proposal of the ministry of
home affairs to introduce the Enemy Property (Amendment and
Validation) Second Bill, 2010, to make amendments to the Enemy
Property Act, 1968," an official statement said.
According to the amendments, the enemy property, as it is legally
known, "could be divested only to the owner or his (or her) lawful
heir but shall continue to vest in the custodian till it is
divested by the government".
It means that a Muslim citizen of India, who is a legal inheritor
of such property, is able to retain ownership even if the deceased
had gone to Pakistan after partition, but he will have to legally
prove his or her inheritance.
The amendments come in the wake of a series of judgments by
various courts that eroded the powers of the custodian of the
enemy property.
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