Four parcels of agricultural land owned by the family of India’s most wanted terrorist, Dawood Ibrahim, will go under the hammer on Friday at a reserve price of just over ₹ 19 lakh. The land parcels are the underworld don’s ancestral property and are located in Mumbake village in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district.
While the number of bidders is not clear, one person who is certain to turn up is lawyer and former Shiv Sena member Ajay Srivastava, who has successfully bid on three of the terrorist’s properties in the past. The properties include Dawood’s childhood home in Mumbake village, where he was born.
While the shops he had bid for in 2001 are caught in a legal tangle, Mr Srivastava hopes to get the deed for the 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind’s home soon. The lawyer said he plans to start a Sanatan Pathshala (school) there.
I had bid for the bungalow in 2020. A Sanatan Dharm Pathshala Trust has been set up and construction of the school will start soon. I will participate in the auction on Friday. I had taken part in the auction in 2001 to get the fear of Dawood Ibrahim out of people’s hearts, and a few people have come forward after that,” he said.
Friday’s auction will be held in Mumbai for the four parcels of land, which were seized under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators Act, 1976. The reserve price has been set at ₹ 19.22 lakh.
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