At least six properties belonging to absconding mafia don, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri, were auctioned for nearly Rs 23 lakh, under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA), official sources said here on Tuesday.
The successful bidders include lawyer Ajay Shrivastava and Supreme Court advocate Bhupendra Bhardwaj in the scheduled online, offline and sealed tender auction held here.
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A majority of the properties are mostly small constructions - some in a bad shape - on plots of land, situated in Mumbake village in Khed sub-district of Ratnagiri, from where the Kaskar family hailed.
The competent authority under SAFEMA had planned to auction off all 13 seized properties of the fugitive don early this year, but the plans were postponed in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown.
Besides the six properties belonging to Dawood, two flats in Mumbai belonging to Iqbal Memon alias Iqbal Mirchi?- a former key aide of his - are also being auctioned simultaneously.
Dawood Ibrahim was third on Forbes's?The World's 10 Most Wanted list?from 2010, until it stopped publishing the list in 2011.?
Indian intelligence agencies like?Research and Analysis Wing?and?Intelligence Bureau?(IB)?have been on the lookout for Ibrahim for several years now. His location has been frequently traced to Karachi, Pakistan, a claim which the Pakistan government has denied every time.?
The reward set by the authorities for finding him is $25 million.
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