Centre To Take Over 123 Delhi Waqf Board Properties, ‘Won’t Allow,’ Says AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan

AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan stated he is not going to permit Centre to take over Delhi Waqf properties. (File)

New Delhi:

The Union Housing and City Affairs Ministry has determined to take over 123 properties of the Delhi Waqf Board, together with mosques, dargahs and graveyards, evoking a pointy response from board chairman and AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan.

Mr Khan asserted that he is not going to permit the central authorities to take over the Waqf properties.

The deputy land and improvement officer, in a letter to the board on February 8, knowledgeable it of the choice to “absolve” it from all issues pertaining to the 123 Waqf properties.

The Land and Improvement Workplace (L&DO) of the central ministry stated the two-member committee headed by Justice (retired) SP Garg on the problem of denotified Waqf properties in its report submitted that no illustration or objection was acquired by it from the Delhi Waqf Board.

The committee was fashioned by the federal government of India on the order of the Delhi Excessive Court docket, in response to the L&DO letter.

The L&DO stated the Delhi Waqf Board was the primary stakeholder/affected social gathering to whom the chance was given by the committee. Nevertheless, it didn’t seem earlier than the committee or filed any illustration or objection concerning 123 properties.

“It’s evident from the above info that Delhi Waqf Board doesn’t have any stake within the listed properties, neither have they proven any curiosity within the properties nor filed any objections or claims. It’s, due to this fact, determined to absolve Delhi Waqf Board from all issues pertaining to ‘123 Waqf Properties’,” stated the L&DO letter.

Bodily inspection of all of the 123 properties will now be carried out by the L&DO.

In line with Mr Khan, the L&DO has pasted notices at 123 properties, which has brought about “widespread anxiousness, concern and resentment” among the many Muslim neighborhood.

“We have now already raised our voice within the courtroom on 123 Waqf properties, our Writ Petition No.1961/2022 is pending within the Excessive Court docket.

“Some persons are spreading lies about it, the proof of that is in entrance of all of you. We is not going to permit anybody to occupy the properties of the Waqf Board,” he stated in a tweet in Hindi.

The DWB chairman in a reply to the Deputy Land and Improvement Officer of the central ministry on Friday stated that the Delhi Waqf Board had already filed a petition within the excessive courtroom in January 2022 towards the formation of a two-member committee on the premise of whose report the motion has been initiated by the ministry.

Mr Khan stated that the committee was knowledgeable on April 12 final 12 months about Waqf Board’s petition within the excessive courtroom, difficult its formation and asking it to defer its proceedings till a ultimate order was handed by the courtroom. The matter is pending within the excessive courtroom.

He additionally stated that earlier than the two-member committee, a one-member panel was fashioned whose report was rejected with out giving any cause. Additionally, the federal government of India had allotted one of many 123 properties to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on everlasting foundation, after which the Waqf Board had approached the excessive courtroom.

“Two-member committee has already submitted its report. Nevertheless, no such report is shared with the Delhi Waqf Board. Therefore, you might be requested to share a whole set of the report with the Delhi Waqf Board urgently,” Mr Khan stated.

He claimed that there was no route to represent a two-member committee by the excessive courtroom in its order dated August 20, 2014.

These 123 properties are utilized by the Muslim neighborhood. The day-to-day administration of those 123 properties was completed by Mutawallis or the administration committees appointed by the Delhi Waqf Board, he stated.

The Delhi Waqf Board has a statutory proper beneath Part 32 of the Waqf Act, 1995, to train the powers of common supervision, administration and management over these properties, he asserted.

In line with the Waqf Act, all of the Waqf properties vest within the involved Waqf Board, which within the current case, is Delhi Waqf Board, Mr Khan stated.

The Waqf nature of the 123 properties was “innate” as all have been non secular constructions like mosques, dargahs and graveyards. A few of them got to the Delhi Waqf Board’s predecessor – ‘Sunni Majlis Auqaf – by the British ruler, he added.
 

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