Centre's reported proposal to curb powers of waqf boards against freedom of religion: Owaisi
Hyderabad, Aug 4: Amid media reports that the Centre is likely to introduce a bill to curb the "unfettered" powers of waqf boards, AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday alleged that the NDA government wants to take away the autonomy of the waqf board.
BJP has been against waqf boards and waqf properties "from the beginning" and it has made attempts to finish waqf properties and waqf board as per its "Hindutva agenda", he claimed.
The proposed amendments, as reported in media, show that the "Modi governments wants to take away the autonomy of waqf board. It wants to interfere ... how to run waqf property. That itself is against freedeom of religion," he told reporters here.
If any amendments are made in the establishment and composition of waqf boards, there will be "administrative chaos" and the waqf board would lose its autonomy, the Hyderabad MP said.
The proposed amendments indicate that government officials would conduct a survey of a disputed property instead of the matter being adjudicated in a court. If the survey is conducted by a BJP government, its outcome would be to say the property is not a waqf property, Owaisi alleged.
There are many dargahs and mosques in the country which the BJP-RSS claim are not dargahs and mosques, Owaisi said. "All in all, if the media reports are true, Modi government wants to take away waqf board's properties from Muslims," he said.
The allies of BJP have to think whether they want the waqf properties of Muslims to be taken away, he cautioned.
When Parliament is in session, the government is informing media on the matter and not informing Parliament, which is against parliamentary supremacy, he pointed out.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
