The Kerala High Court on Friday held that a disputed 365-acre land in the Munambam area of Ernakulam district was not intended to be a waqf property and had been given as a gift to the management of Farook College, The Hindu reported.
A division bench of Justices Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and VM Syam Kumar said that the Kerala Waqf Board classifying the land as waqf in 2019 was “bad in law” and “palpably violative” of several Waqf Acts, The News Minute reported.
The board “acted as a sheer land-grabber eyeing on the subject property, which had assumed high value due to commercial developments in the last few decades”, the bench was quoted as having observed.
The dispute dates back to 1950, when a man Mohammed Siddeeq Sait gifted more than 400 acres of land to Farook College, The News Minute reported. Farook College is located in Kozhikode, although it owns this land.
Over the years, parts of the land were sold and has been inhabited by about 600 Christian and Hindu families, The Indian Express reported. The land, which is along the coast, had also decreased in size due to sea erosion.
In 2019, the Kerala Waqf Board declared the land as waqf and sought to cancel those sales.
A waqf is an endowment under Islamic law dedicated to a religious, educational or charitable cause....
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