New Delhi: Britain’s Cairn Energy Plc has secured a French court order to seize about 20 Indian government properties in France to recover a part of the $1.7 billion arbitration award, sources said on Thursday.On June 11, the French court had ordered Cairn Energy’s take-over of Indian government properties, mostly comprising flats; and the legal process got completed on Wednesday evening.An arbitration panel had in December ordered the Indian government to return $1.2 billion plus interest and penalty to Cairn Energy after reversing a retrospective tax demand.With the Indian government not honouring the award, Cairn Energy has moved in multiple jurisdictions overseas to recover the amount due by seizing Indian government assets.