The Uttar Pradesh government has earmarked 66 bighas of land that belonged to one of late Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s relatives as enemy property and decided to auction it online.

About 13 bighas belonging to Mohammad Nuru, a cousin of Musharraf, in village Kotana, Baghpat district, were auctioned off a few months ago.

Now, 66 bighas owned by another of Musharraf’s cousins, Abdul Rahman, in the same village will be auctioned online. Rahman’s land was declared enemy property on Wednesday.

Nuru had moved to Pakistan in 1965, and Rahman and his son Majid in 1970.

Baghpat, 580km west of Lucknow, is where Musharraf’s family hails from. Musharraf, whose parents left for Pakistan with him in 1947 when he was four, visited the village in 2001 after attending the Agra summit, held by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to discuss Kashmir.

After Rahman and Nuru left the country, some people had grabbed their land and started cultivating it. A part of it was sold off illegally, too, Baghpat district magistrate Jitendra Prasad Singh said.

In 2010, the government notified Rahman’s land as enemy property, but the land-grabbers moved court claiming ownership of the plot. The court recently ruled against them.

During the court case, an inquiry made it clear that 13 bighas of land in the village belonged to Nuru.

“Two local farmers bought Nuru’s 13 bighas for Rs 1.38 crore in the online auction. We are going to start the process to auction (Rahman’s) 66 bighas now,” Singh said.

Assets owned by people who emigrated to Pakistan after the Partition are designated as enemy property. Such properties are managed by the Custodian of Enemy Property of the Union home ministry and eventually auctioned off.

Musharraf’s parents had moved from Baghpat to Delhi in 1942, a year before he was born. A few years after the family moved to Pakistan, most of their relatives followed them.