Chhattisgarh waqf board mandates pre-approval for Friday sermons; sparks debate
The Chhattisgarh Waqf Board has introduced a directive requiring mosques across the state to seek prior approval for topics of Friday sermons.
The Chhattisgarh Waqf Board has introduced a directive requiring mosques across the state to seek prior approval for topics of Friday sermons.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday attacked the Congress and the Maha Vikas Aghadi at election rallies in Chandrapur, Umerkheda, and Hingoli in Maharashtra.
The notices, sent to residents VP Salim, CV Hamza, Jamal, Rahmat, and Ravi of Thavinjal village in Wayanad district, claim the families have encroached on 4.7 acres out of a 5.77-acre property owned by the Waqf Board.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday accused the Waqf Board of encroaching on thousands of acres of farmers' lands with the support of the Karnataka government.
Khan was arrested on September 16. He was produced before the Rouse Avenue Court at the end of his five-day custodial interrogation by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) which was allowed by the court on September 21.
The Delhi Police had earlier registered a FIR against Laddan after Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths during a raid at his residence had found a country-made pistol and three live rounds.
A spokesperson of the SVB said on Wednesday that in the first case, a team of SVB caught the taxation clerk of MCF Kanhaiya Lal accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from the complainant in lieu of reducing the property tax from Rs 26 lakh to Rs 7 lakh.
The office of the principle secretary (revenue) stated in a letter on Friday that Khan ceased to be a member and chairman of the Board with the dissolution of the assembly on February 11, as per Section 14(1) of Waqf Act, 1995.
The Chief Justice of India will hear the matter on September 11.
According to the police, Imran said he found the bullets in the donation of a mosque, kept it in his wallet and later forgot about it.
