{"id":103895,"date":"2025-11-12T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=103895"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:30:49","slug":"amnesty-properties-past-transactions-exempt-from-benami-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/amnesty-properties-past-transactions-exempt-from-benami-law.html","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty properties, past transactions exempt from Benami Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The Federal Appellate Tribunal (FAT), Special Bench Karachi, has ruled that the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 2017 (BTPA) does not apply to properties acquired through transactions executed before the law\u2019s enactment or declared under the 2019 Asset Declaration Ordinance (amnesty scheme).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case involved alleged benami property transactions carried out by a Karachi-based developer and builder. In a detailed order, the two-member bench set aside the adjudication and attachment orders issued by the Benami Adjudication Authority, describing them as legally unsustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ihc-restrains-anti-benami-dg-from-applying-the-benami-law-retroactively.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IHC restrains Anti-Benami DG from applying the benami law retroactively<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tribunal clarified that Benami properties can only be confiscated if they are the subject of transactions executed after the BTPA 2017. There is no mechanism under the law to confiscate properties resulting from pre-2017 transactions, which were legally valid at the time. The bench also emphasized that authorities had exceeded their jurisdiction by applying the law retroactively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the tribunal observed that there was no need to re-evaluate the facts or evidence presented by the departments concerning past transactions or amnesty-declared properties. It highlighted procedural gaps, noting that previous reference and confiscation proceedings \u201csuffered basic lacunas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judgment reaffirmed the vested rights of beneficial owners and confirmed that past transactions and amnesty-declared properties remain legally protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Federal Appellate Tribunal (FAT), Special Bench Karachi, has ruled that the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 2017 (BTPA) does not apply to properties acquired through transactions executed before the law\u2019s enactment or declared under the 2019 Asset Declaration Ordinance (amnesty scheme). The case involved alleged benami property transactions carried out by a Karachi-based developer and builder. In a detailed order, the two-member bench set aside the adjudication and attachment orders issued by the Benami Adjudication Authority, describing them as legally unsustainable. Read: IHC restrains Anti-Benami DG from applying the benami law retroactively The tribunal clarified that Benami properties can only be confiscated if they are the subject of transactions executed after the BTPA 2017. There is no mechanism under the law to confiscate properties resulting from pre-2017 transactions, which were legally valid at the time. The bench also emphasized that authorities had exceeded their jurisdiction by applying the law retroactively. In addition, the tribunal observed that there was no need to re-evaluate the facts or evidence presented by the departments concerning past transactions or amnesty-declared properties. It highlighted procedural gaps, noting that previous reference and confiscation proceedings \u201csuffered basic lacunas.\u201d The judgment reaffirmed the vested rights of beneficial owners&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":103896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[3493,36225,69164,69165,4752,69167,69166,853,68901,69168,62717,69169],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-amnesty-scheme","9":"tag-asset-declaration-ordinance-2019","10":"tag-benami-act-2017","11":"tag-benami-adjudication-authority","12":"tag-benami-transactions","13":"tag-fat-karachi","14":"tag-federal-appellate-tribunal","15":"tag-karachi-real-estate","16":"tag-legal-ruling","17":"tag-property-confiscation","18":"tag-property-rights","19":"tag-retroactive-law","20":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amnesty properties exempt from Benami Law - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The judgment reaffirmed the vested rights of beneficial owners and confirmed that past transactions and amnesty-declared properties...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/amnesty-properties-past-transactions-exempt-from-benami-law.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amnesty properties exempt from Benami Law - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The judgment reaffirmed the vested rights of beneficial owners and confirmed that past transactions and amnesty-declared properties...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/amnesty-properties-past-transactions-exempt-from-benami-law.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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