The Bombay High Court (HC) has granted approval for the auction of 25 rare paintings by MF Husain. The artworks, part of a recovery effort by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) in connection with a loan default case, will go under the hammer  on June 12.

The auction titled, 'MF Husain: An Artist's Vision of the XX Century', includes 25 canvases painted as part of the painter's Our Planet Called Earth (OPCE) series, reported PTI. 

In its February 17 order, a single bench of Justice RI Chagla permitted the Sheriff of Mumbai to auction the 25 paintings, secured by NAFED in connection with the Rs 236-crore loan dispute with industrialist Guru Swarup Srivastava's Swarup Group of Industries.