India, July 26 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday quashed three orders passed in December 2021 declaring five land parcels in Vile Parle as enemy properties. It also set aside mutation entries made by revenue authorities replacing the names of the landowners with that of the Custodian of Enemy Property for India in the ownership records.

A division bench of Justice Suman Shyam and Justice Shyam C Chandak held that the mutation entries dated May 17, 2023, made pursuant to a communication from the Custodian of Enemy Property, could not be sustained as the mandatory procedure under the Enemy Property Act, 1968, had not been followed.

In December 2021, the Custodian informed the district collector that the five land parcels, originally W...