India, May 9 -- A family whose three apartments in upscale Bandra were classified as "enemy property" by the central government has secured interim relief from the Bombay high court, which stayed the order last month much to the petitioners' relief. The Lakhwani family migrated from Pakistan to India in 1971 after facing persecution in the aftermath of the Indo-Pak wars.

Petitioner Sachanand Lakhwani's family had stayed back in Pakistan at the time of Partition, as it owned several properties there. However, according to the family, atrocities committed against Hindus by the Pakistani government and sections of Pakistani Muslims after the 1965 and 1971 wars forced them to flee to India.

After settling in Mumbai, Lakhwani purchased three...