The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has determined to take over 123 homes of the Delhi Waqf Board, inclusive of mosques, dargahs and graveyards, evoking a pointy response from board chairman and AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan. Mr Khan asserted that he’s going to now no longer permit the imperative authorities to take over the Waqf homes. 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 subjects concerning the 123 Waqf homes. The Land and Development Office (L&DO) of the imperative ministry stated the two-member committee headed through Justice (retired) SP Garg on the difficulty of denotified Waqf homes in its document submitted that no illustration or objection changed into obtained through it from the Delhi Waqf Board.
The committee changed into shaped through the authorities of India at the order of the Delhi High Court, in keeping with the L&DO letter. The L&DO stated the Delhi Waqf Board changed into the primary stakeholder/affected celebration to whom the possibility changed into given through the committee. However, it did now no longer seem earlier than the committee or filed any illustration or objection concerning 123 homes.
“It is clear from the above information that Delhi Waqf Board does now no longer have any stake withinside the indexed homes, neither have they proven any hobby withinside the homes nor filed any objections or claims. It is, therefore, determined to absolve Delhi Waqf Board from all subjects concerning `123 Waqf Properties’,” stated the L&DO letter.
Physical inspection of all of the 123 homes will now be done through the L&DO. According to Mr Khan, the L&DO has pasted notices at 123 homes, which has caused “tremendous anxiety, worry and resentment” a number of the Muslim community. “We have already raised our voice withinside the courtroom docket on 123 Waqf homes, our Writ Petition No.1961/2022 is pending withinside the High Court.
“Some human beings are spreading lies approximately it, the evidence of that is in the front of all of you. We will now no longer permit each person to occupy the homes of the Waqf Board,” he stated in a tweet in Hindi. The DWB chairman in a respond to the Deputy Land and Development Officer of the imperative ministry on Friday stated that the Delhi Waqf Board had already filed a petition withinside the excessive courtroom docket in January 2022 towards the formation of a two-member committee on the premise of whose document the movement has been initiated through the ministry.
Mr Khan stated that the committee changed into knowledgeable on April 12 closing 12 months approximately Waqf Board’s petition withinside the excessive courtroom docket, hard its formation and asking it to defer its complaints till a very last order changed into surpassed through the courtroom docket. The rely is pending withinside the excessive courtroom docket. He additionally stated that earlier than the two-member committee, a one-member panel changed into shaped whose document changed into rejected with out giving any reason. Also, the authorities of India had allocated one of the 123 homes to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on everlasting basis, and then the Waqf Board had approached the excessive courtroom docket.
“Two-member committee has already submitted its document. However, no such document is shared with the Delhi Waqf Board. Hence, you’re asked to percentage a entire set of the document with the Delhi Waqf Board urgently,” Mr Khan stated. He claimed that there has been no route to represent a two-member committee through the excessive courtroom docket in its order dated August 20, 2014. These 123 homes are utilized by the Muslim community. The every day control of those 123 homes changed into performed through Mutawallis or the control committees appointed through the Delhi Waqf Board, he stated.
The Delhi Waqf Board has a statutory proper beneathneath Section 32 of the Waqf Act, 1995, to exercising the powers of widespread supervision, management and manage over those homes, he asserted. According to the Waqf Act, all of the Waqf homes vest withinside the worried Waqf Board, which withinside the gift case, is Delhi Waqf Board, Mr Khan stated.
The Waqf nature of the 123 homes changed into “innate” as all had been non secular systems like mosques, dargahs and graveyards. Some of them had been given to the Delhi Waqf Board’s predecessor – ‘Sunni Majlis Auqaf – through the British ruler, he added.
