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Haryana graveyard sold out to land mafia?

Submitted by admin7 on 3 February 2012 - 12:15pm Indian Muslim By TCN Staff Reporter, New Delhi: In the wake of soil turning out gold in the country, complaints about alleged sellout of graveyards, dead or alive, are reaching media at regular int erval. The latest is from Karnal district in Haryana where a practicing lawyer a nd social activist has made serious charges against the Haryana Wakf Board. The graveyard of Chand Sarai (Khasra No. 4489) in Karnal district is said to be the latest victim of nefarious nexus between wakf board officials and land mafia . The thin Muslim population of the neighborhood got shocked when a few months b ack they woke up to plotting of the graveyard that was going on in connivance of the wakf board officials. People protested and the plotting was stopped. But Ad v. Mohd Rafique Chauhan alleges that a group of local Muslims were pacified and charmed over with a plot for a madrasa.

Officers of Haryana Wakf Board gave on lease to land mafia the graveyard of Chand S arai in Karnal (khasra no. 4489) and in turn got huge amount. This happened thre e months ago. The land mafia did plotting of the land and began selling to peopl e. The graves were dug out by JBC machine. When local Muslims protested and info rmed the district officials, some local Muslims were pacified and promised a 120 0 metre plot for a madrasa, and the plotting continued, alleges Adv. Chauhan who is also president of Haryana Muslim Khidmat Sabha. Talking to TCN over phone, he also alleged that when he filed an RTI with the st ate wakf board seeking details of lessees of wakf properties in the state, his a pplication was rejected foolishly saying the board is a religious institution an d thus does not fall in the ambit of RTI.

The Sabha had sought record of lessee through RTI, the Haryana Wakf Board did no t give information saying this is a religious institution and does not come unde r RTI, said Adv. Chauhan. Blasting the wakf board s idea, he says RTI Act article 2(h) says any department or institution constituted under constitutional provision, parliament or state asse mblies rulings or by government orders, they come under RTI. Haryana wakf board was set up under wakf act 1995 article 13(1) by Haryana govt on in Aug 2003 thro ugh a notification. Adv. Chuhan says that he has been fighting for this unfenced Chand Sarai graveya rd for some years. Even the case had once reached to court and he won the case i n favor of the graveyard in 2008. After that he had also worked for fencing of t he graveyard and even district administration had released some amount for that, but the fencing never happened.

Karnal, once populated by Muslims, became devoid of Muslims after partition when

the minority community members migrated to Pakistan leaving behind mosques and graveyards. After decades, people from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of t he country, mostly labors, began coming here in search of livelihood and got set tled here. Still, there is very low population of Muslims. ShareComment viewing options Flat list - collapsedFlat list - expandedThreaded list - collapsedThreaded lis t - expanded Date - newest firstDate - oldest first 10 comments per page30 comme nts per page50 comments per page70 comments per page90 comments per page150 comm ents per page200 comments per page250 comments per page300 comments per page Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to a ctivate your changes. This is not just one case, Submitted by tasnimfaruqi (not verified) on 4 February 2012 - 6:29am. This is not just one case, one can find them all over the country. Same tricks b een applied in Noida with famous Appu Ghar with lot of our community big shot be en soldout. Looks like 80% of the job done in our favour. "Hame to apno ne loota , ghauron men kahan dam tha, Hamari kashti wahi doobi, jahan pani kam tha." Mr.F arooq - 09934810874 an activist can give a light on this subject. tasnim - spectator - noida reply

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