MODUS OPERANDI

According to experts, an indifferent behaviour of Wakf Board, staff shortage and corruption have led to alienation of many Wakf land parcels by changing survey numbers, though the Supreme Court declared that such changes could be done only by a legal process. A few instances are listed below:

1 Waqf institution Dargah Hzt. Meer Mahmood had 600 acres 15 guntas in Attapur and 386 acres in Malkajgiri. More than 80 per cent of these lands were grabbed and encroached in both areas now. Wakf Board CEO Mannan Farooqui issued an errata notification changing the survey numbers unlawfully without placing the matter before the board. The board noticed the same only after the publication of the errata in a newspaper. When the board lodged a criminal case against him, he left for the US on medical grounds. Later, the government repatriated his services to his parent department and appointed another CEO for the Wakf Board.

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Farooqui had also issued an errata notification in 2017 in connection with the properties under Jamia Masjid, Bhongir, deleting survey no 438, comprising 20 acres 28 guntas, and also splitting the survey no 34 into survey nos 3 and 4, comprising 3 acres 12 guntas and 2 acres 28 guntas respectively, thereby ignoring the legal mandate.

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Another CEO Abdul Hameed declared the Waqf property of Dargah Hzt. Nadeemullah Hussaini situated at Kishan Bagh as nonWaqf. He also issued an errata notification in connection with the Waqf property relating Jamia mosque Malakpet, for which he has no jurisdiction.

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A Waqf property in Manikonda, measuring 1,654 acres 32 guntas, was attached to Dargah Hzt. Hussain Shah Vali. But more than 60 per cent of the property was sold out by Mutawalli. Subsequently, the Waqf Board lodged a complaint against Mutawalli’s sons. Similarly, the board lost a prime piece of land measuring more than 500 acres in Raidurgam which belonged to Jamia Nizamia.