Shayin, while putting the record straight by submitting a detailed report to the state government, has asked for stern action against those who had been treating Wakf properties as their personal property to mint huge sums of money in the form of illegal gratification. The report has leveled serious allegations on the conduct of its chairman, Hamid Hussain, a former MLA from the state. Hamid Hussain, when contacted by The Indian Express, denied the charges.
The Board had leased out prime land measuring 900 square yards at Garhi Harsru in Gurgaon at throwaway prices, where land prices have sky-rocketed, especially after the Haryana Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation allotted 1,400 acres to the Mukesh Ambani Reliance Industries Limited for its Rs 40,000-crore Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The plot had been leased out to M/s Gateway Distri Parks Ltd. in lieu of lease money of Rs 5,000 per month from January 1, 2005. Ironically, the leasing of this property led to demolition of a mosque on this land and against a grant of Rs 1,000 to its Imam. The Board, even after receiving a complaint in this regard, could not act because the chairman of the board, at his own level, had issued an NOC for commercial exploitation of the land. Shayin, in his report, had apprehended that money had exchanged hands.
Similarly, in another case, another prime Wakf property at Choma village in Gurgaon was leased for extraneous reasons. This piece of land continues on monthly lease basis from 1997, but the Board converted this land from urban to rural and leased it out on yearly patta basis from 2004-05 against a meager sum of Rs 25,000 and with a yearly raise of Rs 2,000, which had brought the lease money to Rs 30,000 this year. This happened despite the fact that Board had been earning Rs 60,000 from the same land since 1997.
To further make money, the Board approved a plotting scheme in favour of the pattedar. Seeing this blatant misuse of authority, Shayin proposed cancellation of this lease to develop the Board’s own complex on this land, but the chairman did not allow it. Rather, according to Shayin’s report, he took a bribe to allow carving of residential plots on this land. Here again, the chairman issued the NOC on his own.
Besides leasing out Wakf land for extraneous reasons, the report also alleged that the chairman of the Board leased out Wakf properties to his son-in-law Mohd Iqbal at Badkli chowk at Nagina, now in Mewat district. This land was leased out to Mohd Iqbal and Mohd Islam against a nominal rent of Rs 1,200 per month. The lessee, in turn, constructed six shops on the property to sublet these without the approval of the Board. The chairman is also charged with pressuring the Wakf officers concerned to issue NOCs for construction of a first floor on this land.
In another case of nepotism, the chairman allotted one piece of prime land measuring 860 square yards to his nephew Mohd Talha at a meager sum of Rs 435 per month from October 1, 2004. The allottee in this case also had constructed many shops on this land without the knowledge of the Board, which, according to the report, is not only illegal, but cognizable as well.
Another Gurgaon property located at Dhulkot has been leased out on yearly basis and a plotting scheme had also been approved for carving of residential plots on this land. The Shayin report alleges that the chairman was a partner in this plotting scheme to an extent of 25 per cent of total profit.
“As we all know that Gurgaon has very high potential for residential plotting, it is widely believed that the chairman took a heavy gratification from the said party in lieu of the NOC issued at his own level. The CEO was not able to take any legal action against the lessee as he had the NOC issued by the chairman,” said the report.
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