Taking note of the fact that 31 graveyards of the Shia Muslim community have been gobbled up by land sharks, leading to a burial land crisis in Lucknow, Minister for Minority Welfare and Waqf Azam Khan has written a letter to the Home Department requesting a high-level inquiry and strict action against the encroachers.
The Samajwadi Party, in its poll manifesto, had promised that a special law would be enacted for removal of encroachments from waqf properties and that these would be kept out of the purview of land acquisition laws. If any building has been constructed on waqf properties, they would be handed over, along with the land, to the waqf board, it was stated.
Lucknow had 47 Shia graveyards registered with the Shia Central Board of Waqfs (SCBW), but 31 of them do not exist any more. Private houses and other establishments have come up on their land. This has resulted in acute land shortage for burial space, leading to a steep rise in the rates of grave land. People are reserving their burial land in graveyards during their lifetime at a premium.
The situation came to the fore when some Shia community members complained to SCBW about costly grave land at Imambara Ghufran Maab, which is allegedly under the caretakership of Shia cleric Kalbe Jawwad. Working chairman of SCBW Syed Waseem Rizvi confirmed the report and stated that land of each grave was sold for Rs 65,000, making it impossible for poor Shias to bury their dead.
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