Waqf  

The BJP-led NDA government is introducing the Waqf Act Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha, aiming to reform waqf property management, sparking debate between the ruling and opposition parties.
 

 Wasim Rizvi, former chairman of Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Board, has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to invalidate Places of Worship Act, 1991

 Sunni Waqf Board has constituted a trust to build a mosque on the Ayodhya land as mandated by the Supreme Court

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While on one hand the All India Muslim Personal Law Board held a meeting and decided to file a review petition against the Supreme Court's verdict on awarding the disputed land to Ramjanmabhoomi Nyas, on the other hand, Shia Waqf Board chief Wasim Rizvi donated Rs 51,000 to Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas.
 

Despite widespread messages that Ayodhya verdict was balanced, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board has decided to file review petition, said they will not accept the 5-acre land.

The Supreme Court on Saturday directed the Centre to give five acres of suitable land to Sunni Waqf Board and at the same time make necessary arrangements for the construction of the temple by forming a trust.
 

Sunni Waqf Board says not satisfied but will accept Supreme Court's verdict. From Rajnath Singh to Nitish Kumar, leaders of various parties expressed happiness over the Ayodhya verdict.

 

The Sunni Central Waqf Board informed the Supreme Court today that it possesses the impugned land. 

The top court is hearing 14 appeals filed against the 2010 Allahabad high court judgment, delivered in four civil suits, that the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among the three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla
 

The ministry had launched an ambitious programme to geo-tag all waqf properties in the country in the last term, and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the progress was on a “war footing”. The minister announced this while chairing a meeting of the Central Waqf Council (CWC) in New Delhi

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The complainant has accused Congress leader Ahmed Patel, along with what the petitioner calls 'members of waqf land mafia', of 'desecration of dargah, Shah-e-Mardan, armed looting of pipes, iron poles and other articles belonging to dargah'

Waqf is an Islamic charity for the benefit of the community. There are around 5.76 lakh registered Waqf properties across the country which had been utterly mismanaged and therefore left in the hands of the land mafia under subsequent governments before 2014.