Updated: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:30 (IST) Following complaints of irregularities in the auction of 106 properties across the state, including Lucknow, the Home Ministry team is evaluating them. The auction may be canceled if any discrepancy is found in the valuation. Auditors from the ministry conduct evaluation in 27 districts. Raja Mahmudabad’s properties have not yet been included as the case is in the Supreme Court. The complaint is that the valuation of properties was low, causing loss to the government. Rajiv Bajpayee, Lucknow. After complaints of irregularities in the auction of 106 properties across the state, including the capital, the home ministry team is evaluating them. If any irregularity is found anywhere in the valuation of the property, the auction will be cancelled. Auditors from the Ministry of Home Affairs are involved in evaluation on a random basis in 27 districts of the state. Officials from the office of the custodian of enemy property of UP say that the home ministry teams are evaluating and if any fault is found, the auction will be held again. Remove Advertisement Read Only News The Ministry of Home Affairs last year issued a notification to auction enemy properties. According to this, unused agricultural land as well as commercial properties are auctioned. At present the enemy properties of Raja Mahmudabad are not kept within its ambit because a case is pending in the Supreme Court against the Enemy Property Act, on which the court has ordered not to tamper with the property of the Raja. Sources say that there is a complaint that the valuation of properties in the auction was underestimated by some surveyors, due to which the government suffered a loss of millions of rupees in revenue. About 13 thousand enemy properties across the country are in the custody of the declared government, which includes 980 properties of Raja Mahmudabad. The government fills its coffers by selling these properties. The Union Home Ministry had issued a notification in this regard only last year, according to which the owner of enemy properties whose value is less than Rs 1 crore in rural areas and up to Rs 5 crore in urban areas will first have to propose the purchase. If the occupier cannot buy the property, the enemy property will be disposed of by tender or auction. What are enemy assets? The properties left behind by people who took citizenship of Pakistan and China between 1947 and 1962 were considered enemy property. The government handed over the enemy properties to the custodian of enemy property under the Ministry of Home Affairs. After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, the Enemy Property Act was enacted in 1968, which regulates such properties and also determines the powers of the custodian. About two hundred enemy properties were identified in Lucknow. Of these, more than 125 are enemy properties in Sadar tehsil alone. Apart from these, nine are in Malihabad, 29 in Mohanlalganj and the remaining in BKT and Sarojini Nagar tehsil areas.