Wakf acts to save valuable land

• Report says that Wakf Board was set to lose 12-acre land worth Rs 100 cr to encroachers 
• Board officials ask police to initiate action against the land sharks 
• It is alleged that kin of a ruling party legislator is behind the encroachments

Balapur: In a damage-control mode, the Wakf Board officials have written to Pahadi Shareef police station, urging the Inspector to initiate action against illegal encroachers in wake of a High Court judgement.

Following the publication of a report – ‘Wakf Board is about to lose Rs 100 cr land’ on January 10 in The Hans India, the TS Wakf Board Chief Executive Officer Shahnawaz Qasim asked the Pahadi Shareef police station’s Station House Officer, in a letter, to immediately take appropriate action to maintain status quo passed by the High Court. 

The Hans India had reported that Wakf Board would be losing more than 12-acres at Mamidipally village (close to Shamshabad) to kin of ruling party MLA. 

Despite the State Wakf Tribunal’s direction and show cause notice issued to the men in question, they were lobbying with the powers-that-be to wrest the land parcel from the Board by any means.

The land under survey number 291, 292, 293 under Wakf institution, Dargah Hazrat Saif Nawaz Jung, was registered by alleged encroachers in 2016. Wakf Board took up the matter in 2018 after the land sharks started fencing the land purportedly to build a farm house. 

A joint report of Executive Officer of TS Wakf Board and Inspector Auditor of Wakf, Ranga Reddy district, and some departments was submitted on September 14 last. 

Later, on October 10 it was found that P Anil Kumar Kishan s/o Late T N Kishan has “unauthorisedly or wilfully encroached on the Wakf land” in an extent of 12 acres and 10 guntas under the Dargah.

A show cause notice was also issued for eviction from the property. It has been more than two months since the notice has been issued and a portion of the wall of the encroached property was bulldozed, but the Wakf Board could not take back the property officially under its control, as it needs to fulfil other criteria and take help of Revenue department. 

The Wakf activists have alleged that despite High Court direction, the Wakf Board is unable to take back the land parcel under their custodyll.