Wakf Board about to lose Rs 100 crore land at Mamidipally

Balapur: It is an instance of how the TS Wakf Board’s toothlessness has slowly made it succumb to political pressure. In the latest case, the Board is about to be deprived of more than 12-acre land worth about Rs 100 crore at Mamidipally village (close to Shamshabad) to kin of ruling party MLA. Despite State Wakf Tribunal’s direction and show-cause notice to the men in the question, they allegedly remain persistent and are said to be lobbying the powers-that-be to wrest the land parcel from the Board by any means.

The land under survey number 291, 292, 293 under Wakf institution, Dargah Hazrat Saif Nawaz Jung, was registered by alleged encroachers in 2016. Wakf Board took up the matter in 2018 after the land sharks started fencing the land purportedly for a farm house. A joint report of Executive Officer of TS Wakf Board and Inspector Auditor of Wakf, Ranga Reddy district, and some departments was submitted on September 14 last. Later, on October 10 it was found that P Anil Kumar Kishan s/o Late T N Kishan has “unauthorisedly or wilfully encroached into the Wakf land” in an extent of 12 acres and 10 guntas under the Dargah.

A show-cause notice was also issued for eviction of the property. It has been more than two months since the show-cause notice has been issued and a portion of the wall of the encroached property was bulldozed, but the Wakf Board could not take back the property officially under its control, as it needs to fulfil other criteria and take help of Revenue department. The Wakf activists have alleged that despite High Court direction, the Wakf Board is unable to take back the land parcel under their custody.