There are a number of matters that have landed up in controversies, wherein the Waqf Board issued NOCs or gave the Waqf properties on lease. Meanwhile another case of giving one acre land on lease has surfaced which once again landed up in a fresh controversy as the Waqf Board has approved the tenancy of an encroacher who had built a temple on waqf land.
The encroacher of the waqf property located at Trimulgherry under Koh-e-Imam Zamin (Shia) Wakf institution, who has been occupying the waqf land for nearly 35 years, has sneakily submitted an application to become a tenant of the Waqf board. He built a temple on the land in 1980. On April 26, the APSWB unanimously agreed to fix a lease amount of Rs 10,000 per month with a non-refundable deposit of Rs 50,000 for the one acre land parcel.
Meanwhile Waqf Board Chairman Maulana Ghulam Afzal Biabani has told that the land was occupied for 35 years. He denied presence of temple on Waqf land and told that temple is outside the Waqf land and Waqf Board has undertaken survey in this connection.
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