recently introduced.
To legal hiers in inida. I think 2-3 months back Rajah of muhamadabad won Rs.300 crore worth of his property in UP in Allahabad high court.(i 'll try to search it )
Bill to amend migrant property law introduced
The Bill proposes that the enemy property, as it is legally called, "could be divested only to the owner or his (or her) lawful heir"
Published on 11/15/2010 - 11:59:14 AM
New Delhi: The government on Monday introduced a legislation in parliament that gives Indian Muslims — if they are legal heirs — a right to claim the properties of relatives who migrated to Pakistan during the Partition in 1947.
The Bill, introduced by Home Minister P Chidambaram in fact seeks amendment to an over 40-year-old legislation called the Enemy Property Act, 1968. The changes to the Act were cleared by the government last month but they need Parliament's approval before becoming law.
The Bill, titled the Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Second Bill, 2010, proposes that the enemy property, as it is legally called, "could be divested only to the owner or his (or her) lawful heir".
According to the original law, the government as the custodian of all such properties had the right to rent them out to anybody.
The change, if approved by Parliament, would ease the way for an Indian Muslim who is a legal inheritor of such property to get ownership rights. But the claimant will have to legally prove his or her inheritance and should be an Indian citizen by birth, repots IANS.
