Former Uttar Pradesh Minister and senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan is in the dock. The Yogi Adityanath Government is likely to recommend a CBI probe into allegation that he grabbed acres of Wakf board land in Uttar Pradesh.
In its report the land grab case, the Central Waqf Council (CWC) has called for CBI probe in charges that Azam Khan misused his official position to change title of 28 bigha land from ‘Enemy Property” to Wakf property and grabbed them.
The said property was leased out to the private trust of Maulana Jauhar Trust belonging to Azam Khan. The total cost of the land is estimated `60 crore. The CWC said this is a serious fraud and it is also a violation of Enemy property Act, which should be investigated by the CBI. The report also listed out Waqf properties which were leased to Trusts connected with his family for as low as `1.
In its 41 pages report Azam Khan’s name cropped up 61 times.
According to report, the task of additional of arranging of additional land of 28 acre for private university too was given to chairman Sunni Wakf Board.
It alleged that Khan along with chairman Sunni Wakf Board (SWB) created a ‘Alal Aulad Wakf’ named ‘Waqf Imanuddin Qurshi’ through Masood Khan s/o Sharafat Khan, to grab the ‘enemy property’. The file of the said wakf is missing from the Sunni Central Waqf Board (CWB).
“By using wakf Imanuddin Qureshi’s allegedly fake deed portraying ‘Alal Aulad wakf’/family trust, they tried to get stay order from the High Court. The fact is that the said property is ‘Enemy property’ which was left by some ‘Qureshi’ family during the Partition,” it said.
According to report, the said wakf is brainchild of non other but Azam khan, Tazeen Fatma and Zufar Farooqui. On the basis of said fake documents, the said lands of about 28 bigha has been converted form ‘Enemy property’ to ‘Wakf Property’.