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HC restrains special court from attaching Dawood properties
Mumbai, Nov 23: Restraining a special court from passing orders on attachment of two shopping complexes suspected to be owned by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Mumbai High Court has deferred till November 25 a petition that challenged the police move to seize these properties.
Mumbai, Nov 23: Restraining a special court from passing orders on attachment of two shopping complexes suspected to be owned by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Mumbai High Court has deferred till November 25 a petition that challenged the police move to seize these properties.
About 300 tenants of the shopping complexes and global
marketing company have moved a division bench of the High
Court challenging the order of the special court seeking to
attach Sara Shopping Complex and Shopping Centre.
They argued that they were in legal possession of the property and could not be dispossessed.
The petitioners challenged the November 04 order of designated judge A P Bhangale who had ordered them to lead evidence to show proof of ownership to counter the police claim that the properties belong to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The judge had earlier allowed prosecutor Rohini Salian to lead evidence to show that the properties belonged to the underworld. The tenants told the court that they did not wish to lead evidence.
Central Public Works Department of the Union government, on whose land the properties in question stand, said they had repaid the money taken from global marketing company earlier and argued that they were not tenants in stricter legal sense.
They argued that they were in legal possession of the property and could not be dispossessed.
The petitioners challenged the November 04 order of designated judge A P Bhangale who had ordered them to lead evidence to show proof of ownership to counter the police claim that the properties belong to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The judge had earlier allowed prosecutor Rohini Salian to lead evidence to show that the properties belonged to the underworld. The tenants told the court that they did not wish to lead evidence.
Central Public Works Department of the Union government, on whose land the properties in question stand, said they had repaid the money taken from global marketing company earlier and argued that they were not tenants in stricter legal sense.
Bureau Report