03-16-2005, 11:33 PM
<b>sunni waqf board--</b> -Actually they claim everything including India.
<b>Movement to save UP auqaf</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â
Direct action: Maulana Kalbe Jawwad inspecting Husainabad Trust papers.
Rampant misappropriation of property and corruption in management of auqaf (Muslim trusts) properties in UP is not a new phenomenon<b>. Unscrupulous mutawallis (trustees) have been misusing the auqaf properties since long. </b>
Properties worth billions of rupees have been disposed of on throw-away prices with connivance of the administration. Not only the mutawallis have been selling this precious land but even governments do not lag behind in illegally occupying auqaf properties and using it according to their own will without bothering to follow the law of the land. According to a rough estimate, there are about <b>1,28,000 Sunni and about 9,000 Shia auqaf in UP</b>.
In Lucknow, the Shia auqaf properties are higher in number, their value running in billions of rupees, perhaps due to Lucknow's Shia nawabs' munificence. <b>Many government buildings, including the Raj Bhawan (it was Kothi Farhatbakhsh), are actually waqf properties. The multi-storey Jawahar Bhawan, Indira Bhawan, Akashdeep, district magistrate's residence and other buildings housing various government offices were constructed on waqf land</b>. <!--emo&
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<b>Movement to save UP auqaf</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Â
Direct action: Maulana Kalbe Jawwad inspecting Husainabad Trust papers.
Rampant misappropriation of property and corruption in management of auqaf (Muslim trusts) properties in UP is not a new phenomenon<b>. Unscrupulous mutawallis (trustees) have been misusing the auqaf properties since long. </b>
Properties worth billions of rupees have been disposed of on throw-away prices with connivance of the administration. Not only the mutawallis have been selling this precious land but even governments do not lag behind in illegally occupying auqaf properties and using it according to their own will without bothering to follow the law of the land. According to a rough estimate, there are about <b>1,28,000 Sunni and about 9,000 Shia auqaf in UP</b>.
In Lucknow, the Shia auqaf properties are higher in number, their value running in billions of rupees, perhaps due to Lucknow's Shia nawabs' munificence. <b>Many government buildings, including the Raj Bhawan (it was Kothi Farhatbakhsh), are actually waqf properties. The multi-storey Jawahar Bhawan, Indira Bhawan, Akashdeep, district magistrate's residence and other buildings housing various government offices were constructed on waqf land</b>. <!--emo&
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