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Khan: tough to recover encroached property

Special Correspondent

BANGALORE: The land mafia has encroached upon prime property belonging to the wakf board in 135 cases in the State and nearly 80 per cent of the encroachers were Muslims.

This was revealed by Minister for Wakf and Minorities Welfare Mumtaz Ali Khan in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday.

In a reply to a question by Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli (Congress) during question hour, Dr. Khan said heads of mosques and religious bodies had encroached upon wakf properties in the State, and it was difficult to recover them. There was need to constitute a task force and a tribunal to deal with encroached properties. Dr. Khan said it was difficult to set a time frame to recover the encroached property. Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha K. Rahman Khan on Tuesday also urged Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to constitute a task force for reclaiming such prime wakf property.

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