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New Delhi:Welcoming the Centres plan to amend the Waqf Act, the All India Sufi Sajjadanashin Council (AISSC) Tuesday said that dargahs are the biggest victim of the powers given to waqf boards in states and Union Territories under this legislation...
The Modi government plans to amend the Act, which came in 1995 after repealing the 1954 Act and was later amended in 2013, to curb the power of waqf boards that allow them to declare properties as assets, according to media reports...
AISSC chairman Syed Naseruddin Chishty said there is an urgent need to bring transparency in the functioning of the Waqf boards, which have been enjoying absolute powers after the amendment in the Act in 2013...
Islamic organisations such as All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind among others have opposed the governments move to amend the Act, saying that it wants to change the status and nature of waqf properties...
The intention of the government is bad; it wants to interfere in our religious issues, and it wants to usurp billions of properties of Muslims, Madani said in a statement Monday.. But the AISSC members questioned those opposing the amendments, alleging that the boards have misused their powers to declare properties owned by Muslims as waqf property...
