April 4 (UPI) — India’s higher home Friday handed a invoice altering the way in which donated Muslim properties, often called Waqf properties, value billions of {dollars} are ruled.
The vote was 288-232 with Muslim leaders and the political opposition saying it’s unconstitutional and violates minority Muslim rights.
“The laws handed by parliament will increase transparency and in addition safeguard people’s rights,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote on X.
Waqf properties are donated for the advantage of Muslim communities and embrace mosques, orphanages, graveyards and madrassas or spiritual colleges.
Opponents of the Waqf modification invoice say it’s going to permit extra authorities management, partially by permitting non-Muslims to be on Waqf boards that adminster the donated properties trusts.
Based on authorized web site LiveLaw MP Asaduddin Owaisi Friday challenged the Waqf (Modification) Invoice in India’s Supreme Court.
The authorized petition stated partially that the invoice “charts a brand new course of diluting the protections to waqfs undermining the rights of the minority communities in its properties and increasing the interference of the State over waqf administration.”
Based on Indian Minister for Parliamentary and Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju the Waqf modification invoice “is about transparency, not interference” and is meant to protect towards misuse.
Based on critics of the Modi authorities native officers from Modi’s get together have bulldozed Muslim properties after alleging encroachment in defiance of court docket orders.
Proper-wing teams have claimed a number of mosques asserting they had been at one time Hindu worship websites.
“I’m requesting the federal government: No less than don’t snatch away our locations of worship, don’t run bulldozers over our houses, and allow us to be at peace in our graves,” Muslim MP Imran Pratapgarhi stated.
In India, Waqfs handle practically one million acres throughout greater than 800,000 properties that had been value over $14 billion in 2006.
