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January 28 , 2020
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- A Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister will monitor the disposal of over 9,400 enemy properties, which the government estimates are worth about Rs 1 lakh crore.
- Properties that were left behind by the people who took citizenship of Pakistan and China are known as Enemy Properties.
- There are 9,280 such properties left behind by Pakistani nationals and 126 by Chinese nationals.
- Under the Defence of India Rules framed under The Defence of India Act, 1962, the Government of India took over the properties and companies of those who took Pakistani nationality.
- The Enemy Property Act, enacted in 1968, provided for the continuous vesting of enemy property in the Custodian of Enemy Property for India.
- Some movable properties too, are categorised as enemy properties.
- The 2017 amended Act expanded the definition of the term “enemy subject”, and “enemy firm” to include
- the legal heir and successor of an enemy, whether a citizen of India or a citizen of a country which is not an enemy;
- and the succeeding firm of an enemy firm, irrespective of the nationality of its members or partners.
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