Waqf

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

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, and economically resuscitate private waqf properties."

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

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 Waqf Board used the 'draconian' act against the petitioner(s).

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

Mafidaran Madaria Aalmeen (Fukran) Sansthan filed plea in Rajasthan HC saying that having specific law only for Waqf is against constitution

The Waqf Boards are accused of using fraudulent means to obtain lands and public spaces and claiming their ownership.

The Islamic outfit accused Ashwini Upadhyay of filing petitions against the practices of the Muslim community and using the legal system to harass them.

Thiruchenthurai village near Trichy, Tamil Nadu has been designated as a waqf property by the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board

Since the ownership of the property is transferred to Allah from the waqif, and property can not be taken back from Allah, once a property becomes Waqf, it continues to stay one