The Enforcement Directorate (ED) performed raids at seven areas in Pune and one place at Aurangabad in Maharashtra in reference to the alleged Waqf Board land rip-off case. The Waqf Board comes beneath the division of Minority Development headed by minister Nawab Malik.
Maharashtra | Enforcement Directorate is conducting raids at seven areas in Pune, in connection Waqf Board land rip-off case— ANI (@ANI) November 11, 2021
However, the minister shortly jumped to assert that raids weren’t carried on the workplaces of Waqf Board however on one endowment belief Tabut Inam Endowment Trust with regard to sure transactions. “I think this is an attempt to browbeat and defame me by spreading rumours. I will not say anything directly on this issue. I am not the chairperson of the Waqf Board but this is under my department. This matter is related to endowment trust now registered with the Waqf Board. The land of the endowment trust was acquired and some people with the help of bogus documents withdrew about Rs 9 crore from the government,” News 18 quoted Malik saying.
#EXCLUSIVE | It’s only a recreation of scaring me by spreading rumours: NCP Leader @nawabmalikncp tells @maryashakil on ED raids at 7 areas in reference to Pune Waqf Board Land Scam pic.twitter.com/UALOgURPJn— News18 (@CNNnews18) November 11, 2021
But from the minister’s assertion, it was clear that the rip-off had taken place when the stated endowment belief was a part of the Waqf Board. He claimed that on this matter he had taken motion together with FIR towards 5 individuals.
Malik additional clarified that his ministry has been making an attempt to ‘clean up’ Waqf Board associated points and the ED ought to come and probe over 30,000 trusts which are related to the Board. He even known as the media studies a ‘campaign by the BJP and RSS’. As per a report in Free Press Journal, Malik claimed that very quickly the Waqf Board will launch a portal to supply all papers and information. He even added that previously 12 months, 7 FIRs have been lodged towards varied trusts and they’re being probed.
It is notable that Malik has relentlessly been carrying private assaults on Mumbai zone Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Zonal Director, Sameer Wankhede, his members of the family different NCB officers and former Maharashtra BJP CM Devendra Fadnavis proper after Wankhede arrested Aryan Khan, son of cine star Shah Rukh Khan in a drug case in October.
Rs 7.76 crore quantity of land acquisition pocketed by non-public individuals
In August this 12 months, Pune police registered a case of dishonest towards people Chand Mulani and Imtiyaz Shaikh for misappropriating Rs 7.76 crore sanctioned by the Maharashtra authorities for the acquisition of the Trust land. They have been accused of pretending to be office-bearers of Tabut Inam Endowment Trust and had even produced solid paperwork of the Waqf Board figuring out their credentials.
Both accused who’re natives of Yerwada submitted solid paperwork together with a NOC of the Waqf Board and acquired a requirement draft of Rs 7,76,98,250. The demand draft was deposited within the account of Imtiaz Sheikh.
The Trust owned eight acres of prime Waqf land in Maan close to Hinjewadi which was acquired by the Maharashtra authorities for the fourth section of the Rajiv Gandhi Technology Park. The authorities was earmarked round Rs 9.64 crore to the belief towards the acquisition. When the Trust didn’t get the cash it complained to Waqf Board and the rip-off was uncovered.