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In the report of the inquiry, conducted on court directions and submitted to a division bench comprising the Chief Justice B.C. Patel and Justice A.K. Sikri, Survey Commissioner (Wakf) Azimul Haque hinted that all was not well at the shrine and there was need for proper management of the affairs at the Dargah. "There is also a need for control of finances, including income received in the form of donations and expenditure incurred on day-to-day maintenance of the shrine. Accounts of the Dargah need to be audited on regular intervals in order to bring transparency in the management of the shrine," he said. The Dargah could be compared to the Dargah at Ajmer Sharif in its importance and stature and therefore it needed to be managed on the same pattern as the shrine at Ajmer, the Commissioner suggested. This could be achieved either by legislation of a fresh enactment or by constitution of proper Management Committee having government representatives and other eminent personalities, he opined. The committee could have representatives of the Peer Zaadgan, who were presently running the show, but it should have some external presence in order to make it transparent and credible. There should also be an official nominee to ensure that the government was aware of the activities of the shrine, he added. Though the Commissioner said that the income need to be independently examined, he found that the Peer Zaadgans maintain a website spreading news about non-existing programmes, projects and solicit/collect donations from foreign countries. On September 28, the High Court had directed the Survey Commissioner, Wakfs to find out how the Dargah was managed and by whom. The division bench had ordered the Commissioner, appointed under the Wakf Act, to inspect and report in two-and-half-months on who runs the shrine and how its affairs were managed. The directions came after the judges were informed that all properties under the Wakf Board had been `surveyed' except the said shrine. The Court was dealing with a petition filed by NGO `Hum Aap Ke' through its secretary Tahir Siddiqui, seeking a central legislation to govern the affairs of the Dargah on the pattern of the Ajmer (Khawaja Gharib Nawaz) Act. It had sought directions to the ministries of Social Justice and Empowerment and Home Affairs, and the Delhi government to bring in as soon as possible a legislation to govern the affairs of the Dargah to protect its daily income from alleged misuse and misappropriation by its religious head and close followers (Sajjada Nashin and Pirzadas). The petitioner also prayed for directions to the Central Wakf Council and Delhi Wakf Board to take over the affairs of the Dargah till the legislation was notified, and invest the daily income (donations) of the shrine on modern education of the children of the locality and to open vocational training institutes and provide free meals to the disabled and poor. -- UNI
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