[A Waqf board handles Muslim rulers or donors properties. Waqf means a property dedicated to the society. It's a religious endowment in Islam, typically devoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes. It could be a madrassa, mosque, tomb or graveyard.]
Lucknow: All Waqf boards controlled by the Shia and Sunni communities in Uttar Pradesh will be dissolved in the wake of corruption charges against them, the Yogi Adityanath government announced Thursday.
"Chief Minister Adityanath has assented to the dissolution of the boards", Minister of State for Waqf Mohsin Raza told news agency Press Trust of India in Lucknow.
"The dissolution process has been started after taking into account all legal aspects", the minister said.
"There have been serious allegations of corruption against the Shia and Sunni waqf boards related to their properties. An inquiry conducted by the Waqf Council of India had also found many irregularities", he said.
A Waqf board handles Muslim rulers or donors properties. Waqf means a property dedicated to the society. It's a religious endowment in Islam, typically devoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious or charitable purposes. It could be a madrassa, mosque, tomb or graveyard.
The Waqf properties are spread all across India including Uttar Pradesh. Various recent and past committees have concluded that there are large scale corruption in the Waqf boards.
The committees also found that most of the Waqf properties have been either encroached over or handed over on lowest rents right under the Waqf boards' nose.
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