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The Supreme Court, on Thursday, fixed the reserve price for the proposed auction of Sahara group's luxury township Aamby Valley at Rs 37,392 crore and directed the official liquidator to prepare the draft terms and conditions for the sale. The draft terms, to be prepared in consultation with Securities and Exchange Board of India, was to be submitted before the court at the next hearing on June 19. Though Sahara claimed that the circle rates of properties in Aamby Valley was Rs 49,000 crore and the enterprise valuation was Rs 1 lakh crore, the bench of Dipak Misra, AK Sikri and Ranjan Gogoi went by the submissions made by the official liquidator of the Bombay High Court. The valuations based on different methodologies prepared by valuer Techmech International was submitted in a sealed cover to the court. After considering the submissions of the liquidator and consulting with Sebi counsel Arvind Datar and Amicus Curiae Shekhar Naphade, the bench zeroed in on the reserve price, which ..