Musharraf was born in Delhi in pre-Partition India.
Baghpat:
A two-hectare land parcel right here categorized as enemy property and linked to Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf has been auctioned for Rs 1.38 crore, officers mentioned on Friday.
The property is situated in Kotana village in Baghpat’s Baraut tehsil and was declared as enemy property in 2010.
The classification of enemy property pertains to property owned by Pakistani nationals in India that are managed by the Custodian Of Enemy Property, a division below the Union Ministry of Dwelling Affairs (MHA).
Musharraf, a former Pakistan navy chief who seized energy after a coup within the nation in 1999, died in 2023. He was born in Delhi in pre-Partition India.
Baraut’s Sub-Divisional Justice of the Peace Amar Verma confirmed that Musharraf’s grandfather lived in Kotana.
“So far as the previous Pakistan president is worried, he was born in Delhi. He by no means got here right here. These folks have joint land right here.
“Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s father Syed Musharrafuddin and mom Zarin Begum by no means lived within the village however his uncle Humayun lived right here for a very long time,” Verma informed PTI.
He mentioned there may be additionally a home within the village the place Humayun lived earlier than Independence. In 2010, this piece of land was declared enemy property and its public sale was finalised at 10.30 pm on Thursday, he added.
The auctioned land, initially valued at Rs 39.06 lakh, fetched over Rs 1.38 crore and the proceeds from the sale will probably be deposited within the MHA division’s account, a senior Baghpat administration official mentioned.
“The land is recorded below the identify ‘Nuru’ in our income data. There isn’t a documented connection between this Nuru and Pervez Musharraf. The data solely present that Nuru was a resident who left for Pakistan in 1965,” Baghpat’s Extra District Justice of the Peace (ADM) Pankaj Verma informed PTI.
He mentioned the land was declared enemy property by the central authorities and was auctioned in accordance with the established rules.
The ADM additionally famous that the land, situated about eight kilometres from Baraut tehsil in Kotana village, is just not categorized as residential.
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