Bombay serial bomb blasts in 1993. Photo: Special Arrangement
“The Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture and Property) Act (SAFEMA) had acquired particulars of 17 properties owned by Tiger Memon and his members of the family from the particular TADA court docket in Mumbai,” he mentioned.
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“Of these, SAFEMA has taken possession of eight properties, amongst them three flats within the Al Husseini constructing in Mahim, central Mumbai, the place the Memon household, together with Tiger Memon, his 5 brothers, and their mom, as soon as lived,” a senior official advised PTI on Thursday (November 6, 2025).
Tiger Memon, absconding for the reason that blasts of March 12, 1993, which killed not less than 257 individuals at 12 places in Mumbai, is believed to be in Pakistan. While Yakub Memon, one in all his brothers, was hanged in 2015 for his function within the conspiracy, different members of the family got completely different jail sentences by the particular Terrorist And Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court docket.
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“Four different properties of the household are underneath litigation, whereas the method of taking possession of 5 properties was underneath method,” the official mentioned.
“Central Government authorities are getting the valuation of the eight seized properties carried out. Legal formalities are anticipated to be accomplished quickly, and their public sale course of might begin in December or January,” the official mentioned.
As per the Central Bureau of Investigation, one of many conspiracy conferences was performed on the Memon household’s flat in Al Husseini constructing. The household owned three flats on the fifth and sixth flooring.
The flats, seized by regulation enforcement businesses 34 years in the past after the roles of Tiger Memon and his members of the family within the blasts got here to mild, had been opened in April.
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The Memons’ different properties embody a land parcel measuring 10,000 sq. metres in Kole Kalyan space in suburban Vakola, valued at round ₹400 crore.
The SAFEMA is but to get possession of this land, which has been encroached upon and is flanked by two buildings. “The authority was within the technique of getting possession of one other property within the prime locality of Zaveri Bazar in South Mumbai,” the official mentioned.
“A flat in Bandra and two flats in Kapadia Nagar, Kurla, may even go underneath the hammer after the SAFEMA will get possession,” he mentioned.
“Besides, there are 4 outlets in Manish Market in South Mumbai, collectively owned by Tiger Memon and Mohammad Dosa,” the official mentioned, including that an enchantment towards the TADA court docket’s order handy them over to the SAFEMA was pending earlier than a court docket.
Published – November 07, 2025 11:42 am IST








