Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Nov 26: The government is preparing to table Anwar Manippady report on misuse of Wakf properties. Manippady happens to be a former chairman of Karnataka State Minorities Commission.

In his report submitted in March 2012, Manlpady had said that Wakf property worth Rs 2,30,000 crore had been usurped by various leaders. An effort to move the report was made during the term of former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, but the Congress had blocked it. The report had been prepared as per the 1998 Supreme Court order. Now the report will be tabled in January 2020.

Anwar Manippady

As per the report, about 29,000 acres of Wakf property has been embezzled and shopping malls, medical and engineering colleges, five star hotels etc have come up in the encroached land. The government valuation of this embezzlement works out to Rs 2,30,000 crore and the market price is expected to be over three times of that sum.

Names of Congress leaders like Mallikarjun Kharge, Dharam Singh, Roshan Baig, Tanveer Sait, Rehaman Khan, Jaffer Sharif, Haris apart from former MP Sooryavamshi, have been named as accused in the said report.