Hyderabad: Moula Ali to be cleared of encroachments in Nampally

Nampally: With an aim to protect Wakf lands, Telangana State Wakf Board will be calling a high-level meeting of officials including District Collector of Medchal–Malkajgiri and Rachakonda Police Commissioner and higher officials from Revenue department towards initiating action against the encroachers.

Telangana State Wakf Board Chairman Mohammed Saleem and In-charge Chief Executive Officer Mohammed Qasim along with Wakf Board member Dr Nisar Hussain Hyder Agha and officers of Revenue Department and Police officers inspected the wakf land at Kohe Moula Ali Dargah on Thursday.

Later speaking to media persons at his chambers in Nampally, Saleem said that he inspected the lands under survey no 422 and its attached land property in Sy no 424 and many other lands Malkajgiri manada and village in Medchal district, which are notified under Wakf in AP Gazette no 6 and also in Gazette no 35 and has extent of 232 acres of land. The officials found that the institution was under the supervision of Zaheer Ali, a caretaker who allegedly leased out the Waqf property without approval of the Board, illegally. Saleem promised to initiate action against the caretaker under question. Saleem also informed that they have also inspected the Maqbara Mahalakkha Bai Chanda Grarveyard and Eidgah. They found that a land grabber who illegally placed horses in this land and termed this as 'highly objectionable'. He directed the police to remove the horses from the site as it was a graveyard land and also to book FIR against the land grabbers. The Wakf Board found that the land grabbers were illegally drilling a big boulder in Sy no 422 with the intention to encroach the notified land. Wakf Chairman immediately stopped the illegal drilling work and sent away the labour from the site. He directed the police and revenue authorities to seize the machinery and remove the labour from the waqf land.

Later, they also inspected the attached land of Dargha Mir Mahmood Sab situated at Moula Ali an extent of 200 acres and further inspected many other wakf lands in Moula Ali to check encroachments. The locals have represented to allot the land for Muslim graveyard in areas, as there is no graveyard, for which the chairman agreed.