Centre has ordered an auction of four plots of land, said to be the 'benami’ farm-lands suspectedly belonging to Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar in his native place in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri District, official sources said on December 22, reports dajiworld.com. The seized properties, measuring a total 21,275 square metres are situated in Mumbake village of Khed, the birthplace of Dawood, where he spent his early childhood before coming to Mumbai in the late 1970s. The e-auction will be conducted on January 5, 2024, as per a November 21, notice issued by Ministry of Finance under various laws, including the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulator (Forfeiture of Property) Act,1976, the NDPS Act, 1985, and the Prohibition of Benami Property Transaction Act, 1998.