After Dawood fled India in 1990s, properties belonging to him and his associates were seized under the provisions of SAFEMA.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Central Government to seize underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's properties
The Supreme Court bench, headed by Justice R K Agrawal dismissed the plea filed by the underworld don's family against the attachment of Dawood's properties in Mumbai.
After Dawood fled India in 1990s, properties belonging to him and his associates were seized under the provisions of SAFEMA. However, Dawood's family had challenged the seizure.
Earlier in November, the fugitive gangster's properties were auctioned by the Ministry of Finance, under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA).
Three properties in south Mumbai (Shabnam Guest House, Damarwala building and Hotel Raunaq Afroz) that belonged to Dawood were sold to the Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust (SBUT) which has an ongoing redevelopment project in the Bhendi Bazaar area.
The public auction was held by SAFEMA at Churchgate and almost a dozen bidders had turned up for the auction. Swami Chkarapani, national president of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, who had earlier said the he will acquire Raunaq Afroz in the bidding and will build a public toilet there, failed to pay earnest money for the auction and was later disqualified by the Competent Authority (CA) SAFEMA.
The authorities decided to auction these properties in a phased manner. However, past auctions of the gangster's properties failed to receive much response from bidders.
auctions of the gangster's properties failed to receive much response from bidders.
The 62-year-old fugitive mafia boss, wanted in India as the mastermind of the Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993 and accused of crimes such as match-fixing and extortion, accrued a vast property portfolio across the Midlands and south-east in the UK as well as India, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Cyprus and Australia, 'The Times' reported.
It is claimed his syndicate, known as D-Company, once smuggled drugs through Pakistan and across Indian borders for shipment to Europe and North America from the ports at Mumbai, as portrayed in a new BBC series 'McMafia'.
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