Hours after the Uttar Pradesh government ordered dissolution of Shia and Sunni waqf boards, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday night recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged irregularities worth multiple crores committed by the two bodies in the state.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced the dissolution of the Shia and Sunni waqf boards in the state in the wake of corruption charges against them.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has approved the dissolution of the boards, Minister of State for Waqf Mohsin Raza said.
There have been serious allegations of corruption against the Shia and Sunni waqf boards relating to their properties. An inquiry conducted by the Waqf Council of India had also found many irregularities in this regard.
Barely a fortnight after the SP suffered a humiliating defeat in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, a report by the fact-finding committee of the Central Waqf Council (CWC) indicted Khan – one of the controversial ministers in the erstwhile Akhilesh Yadav government – of corruption, mismanagement and misuse of office.
The fact-finding committee, constituted after the CWC received several complaints from UP, was headed by Syed Ejaz Abbas Naqvi, who is also in-charge of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand waqf boards.
Raza had recently handed over separate reports of the Waqf Council with regard to the two boards to the Chief Minister.
It said Khan made a trust – Maulana Johar Ali Education Trust – and diverted funds from waqf properties to it.
The report pointed out discrepancies in maintaining rent collection records for Waqf properties.
Khan has, however, maintained that he was absolutely clean and the allegations against him were baseless.
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