Government auctions enemy properties online regularly; Know how you can buy and is it safe to buy one?

The term enemy usually refers to someone who can cause harm in common parlance. However, according to the law enemy means a person or country is an enemy who or which committed external aggression against India. When people born in India decided to leave their property and belongings in India and emigrated to any of the enemy countries as classified by the government, their assets in India were labelled as enemy properties.

While the term enemy property may sound dangerous, rest assured it is not. An enemy property is a property which was once owned by someone who is now living in an enemy country. These properties are regularly auctioned by the government following an online process through the MSTC portal.