Please enlighten me sir. I heard even Mukesh Ambani's billion dollar home is on Waqf Land.
Please enlighten me sir. I heard even Mukesh Ambani's billion dollar home is on Waqf Land.
A permanent bequest assigning a piece of property, land, building or land with a building on it, to charitable purposes is known as Waqf land. It can be dedicated to general charitable purposes, when the category is defined as Mashrut-ul-Khidmat, or for the maintenance of the descendants of the Waqif, the donor, when it is known as Al-Aulad. Waqf property is available for rent like any other, at rents laid down by state Waqf Boards, all reporting to the central Waqf Council in Delhi. The rents are extremely low, and are kept low by the boards, and the rental income shared between the administrator and the Board. The administrator, the Mutawalli, is appointed by the Board. In the case of Aulad properties, it is usually a descendant of the Waqif. In the case of Khidmat properties, there seems to be nothing specified that I know of.
Rents are set at very low levels by Waqf Boards; I have come across rents which are 10% of market levels or thereabouts. This leads to an increasing gap, with all the scope for corruption that results. Since Waqf property cannot be sold, the way around is by cash transactions or by exchange. In cash transactions, a builder or developer proposes that an existing building be torn down and a new building built in its place. The Mutawalli carries this to the Board and adds his own recommendation. Usually the Board grants permission, and the builder then hands over a large sum of clandestine money to the Mutawalli, builds his flats, and then, since he is not allowed to sell those, leases them for 99 years for the notion rent that the Board permits, along with a whopping amount of cash which is again outside the IT system. Sometimes the Mutawalli gets a chunk of cash at this stage, sometimes some member of the Board has to be paid off. But there we are, with a spanking new building, occupied by long-lease tenants, living at ridiculously low rents and nobody the worse for wear. Nobody other than the Board and the original chRities.
There is big difference between 20-30 odd Ram Sene Goons taking media along and vandalizing a pub and 50,000 strong mob rioting, attacking and torching police vans, private vehicles, media vans, best buses and general public
A pub? They attacked 25 young women with placards marching along a road.
And you find a difference in these do you? What a refined sensibility! Would that be about the same difference as thrashing you with a horsewhip and giving you a tight slap across your face?
