Munambam: Waqf Tribunal questions validity of Board’s declare over land

The Waqf Tribunal has questioned the validity of the Kerala Waqf Board’s declare on the Munambam land on the bottom that the stated land was not registered as Waqf property when the Farook Faculty carried out its sale. In Friday’s listening to, the Tribunal chairman identified that there couldn’t be any situation with the sale of the property because it was not registered as Waqf when the sale occurred.

It was within the Nineteen Fifties that the property deeds hinting that the stated land belonged to the Waqf emerged. The Waqf Act of 1954 states that if a chunk of land was found to be Waqf property, it needs to be registered inside three months. Solely such a registration offers the Waqf Board energy to intervene in issues of the stated property. Nonetheless, the land in query at Munambam was not registered as Waqf property even after the Act got here into impact. As a substitute the registration process started solely in 2019.

The Farook school had offered the property a lot earlier than that. The Tribunal identified to the Waqf Board that the sale might be therefore legitimate.

The Board didn’t make any counter arguments thus far and requested for time to cross test the details. Farook Faculty knowledgeable the Tribunal that it had offered land to 220 folks from 1988-1990.