Waqf

Madras HC declares amendment to Tamil Nadu law on Waqf properties unconstitutional, rules only Waqf tribunals can evict encroachments

A Bench of Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy struck down the provisions that enabled the Tamil Nadu Wakf Board Chief Executive Officer to order the eviction…

‘Illegal, erroneous and arbitrary’: Tribunal quashes Waqf Board’s order which declared Surat Municipal Corporation’s head office ‘Waqf property’

In November 2021, the Waqf Board partially approved an application and declared the SMC Headquarters as waqf property.

‘Misused his post to solicit funds from abroad’: Sufi Islamic Board writes a letter to FM Nirmala Sitharaman, ED against Tamil Nadu Wakf Board chairman

In its letter, the Islamic Sufi Board said the chairman of Tamil Nadu Wakf Board committed cheating and misused his post to solicit funds from abroad.

Karnataka: Government approves funding for construction of compound walls around Waqf properties, BJP leaders protest

Congress-led Karnataka government alloted Rs 31 cr to raise compound walls around waqf properties

As BRS promises IT clusters for minorities on Waqf land, here’s how temples in Telangana are suffocating under a piling list of land-grabbers

On 3rd October, PM Modi, while addressing a rally in Telangana’s Nizamabad remarked that the state government had captured the temples and that the temples were being looted through a…

Uttarakhand’s Waqf properties to be brought under the RTI Act ensuring transparency, over 2,200 properties registered under Waqf: Details

Around 2,200 waqf properties are registered with the Uttarakhand Waqf Board, which would now be under RTI Act

‘I will work on equality since the privilege is not for every religion’: Smriti Irani hints at taking action against National Waqf Development Corp

Smriti Irani said, "NAWADCO is the only Section 25 company in the country that has been given the mandate to take money, especially from the taxpayers, to help maintain, develop,…

Remembering the time when the Congress-led UPA govt handed over 123 prime properties in Delhi to Waqf Board

Overnight, 123 prime properties in Delhi were handed over to the Delhi Waqf Board in one final act of minority appeasement.

You are indulging in arm-twisting: Supreme Court slams Kerala State Waqf Board

The tenancy had been declared unlawful in 2005, he noted, but the matter was left open until the amendment mandating criminal prosecution took effect, at which point the Kerala State…

Pune: Seminar organised to brainstorm on how to use Waqf properties for the development of the Muslim community

Salim Mulla, one of the organizers said, "The Waqf properties are the national assets which are an important and useful tool of social welfare."