Waqf land dispute row: In Karnataka's Vijayapura district, there has been a significant rise in land claims by the Waqf Board, affecting farmers' ancestral lands, temples, government buildings, and even centrally protected monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India.
Several state waqf boards, including the Punjab Waqf Board, Haryana Waqf Board, and Uttarakhand Waqf Board, attended the meeting to present their views and suggestions to the JPC.
The Opposition MPs demanded the removal of the chairperson of the committee, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jagdambika Pal, who overruled their objections on many occasions during the meetings and allowed the deposition to continue.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah was addressing a press conference on 100 days of the third term of the Modi government. He said that the bill will be passed in the parliament in the coming days.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's remarks came after it emerged that the government is all set to bring a bill in Parliament to amend the 1995 law governing Waqf boards to ensure more accountability and transparency in their functioning and mandatory inclusion of women in these bodies.
Whenever a government or court attempts to bring in legal reform in subjects related to Muslims, a section of politicians or parties always go against and politicise it for vote-bank politics. From the Shah Bano case to the Triple Talak bill, they opposed the initiatives.
Uttar Pradesh news: The state government has asked district administrations to undertake a survey of such properties and submit the reports within a month.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta urged Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva to adjourn for 3 weeks the Board's plea seeking preservation and protection of its heritage properties that are likely to be impacted by the project and said that being a “long plan”, the redevelopment has not reached the properties in question.
The CBI has taken over the investigation into alleged illegal sale, purchase and transfer of Waqf properties in Allahabad and Kanpur, and booked Wasim Rizvi, former chairman of Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board, in this regard, officials said.
Chennai: Centre is committed to free Waqf properties of encroachment and develop them with the help of a “strong legislation”, Union Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla said today.“In the last standing committee meeting (in this
New Delhi: The Indian government is moving ahead to develop the country's 490,000 Waqf (Islamic endowment) properties and use the revenue generated to facilitate the socio-economic uplift of the Muslim community.It has sought the Kuala
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