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The Enemy Property Act and Benefits to Government of India
The Enemy Property Act and Benefits to Government of India: Detail
India got independence on August 15, 1947, after almost 200 years of British rule, but along with this freedom, the country had separated from one part of India which was given the name of Pakistan.
In this partition, millions of people went to Pakistan from India and came to India from Pakistan.
The people who left the country had also abandoned valuable things like their land, houses, companies shares and bank balances.
Enemy Property Act, 1968 is an act passed by the Indian Parliament, according to which the Government of India shall have the right to property on enemy property.
Enemy Property Act, 1968; Was passed from Pakistan after the war in 1965.
According to this act, those who had gone to Pakistan after the partition of 1947 or the war of 1965 and 1971 and took citizenship there, all their immovable property was declared 'enemy property.
After that for the first time, those Indian nationals were placed in the category of 'enemy' on a property, whose ancestors were citizens of 'enemy' nation.
Enemy Property Act, 1968; The right to care and transfer of the property of the enemy gives to the legal heir or legal representative of the property.
Benefits to the Government of India from the Enemy Property Act:-
With the change in the Enemy Property Act, 1968, the Government of India will get approximately Rs 3,000 crore from inactive properties for decades, which can be used for the development of the country's infrastructure and social welfare programs.
Apart from this, it will be sent to the forces involved in anti-India activities that their effort against India will ruin them socially and economically.