Wakf board claims Hafeezpet land its property

Hyderabad: Telangana State

Wakf

Board counsel AM Qureshi on Tuesday informed the high court that the land in survey number 80 of Hafeezpet in Rangareddy district belongs to the wakf board and that they have suspicions on the genuineness of the preliminary decree allegedly obtained by third parties on this land.

He also narrated to a bench of Justice MS Ramachandra Rao and Justice T Vinod Kumar that his efforts to secure a copy of this preliminary decree did not yield any result so far. The wakf counsel made this statement when the bench was hearing two writ petitions filed by K Pravin Kumar and Sai Pavan estates challenging the decision of the authorities in notifying this land as wakf property.

The bench, however, disagreed with the wakf counsel and told him that they got a copy of the decree from the registry and went through it. “You claim that you got this land through Munirunnisa. But, the record shows she has no right to give it to you,” the bench said. Additional advocate general J Ramachandra Rao said the land belongs to the state. The hearing would continue on Wednesday.