The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board (or U.P. Sunni Waqf Board) is a body constituted under The Wakf Act, 1995 of the Government of India,[1] for general superintendence of the affairs of Sunni Muslim waqf (charity) properties, waqf institutions of the Sunni Muslim community of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Its chairman is Zufar Ahmad Faruqi.[2] The Sunni Waqf Board has been the main Muslim litigant in the Babri Masjid–Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute.[3]

Establishment

The state waqf boards were established by the state governments in view of the provisions of Section 13 of the Wakf Act, 1954.[1][4]

India also has a Central Waqf Council to advise the government "on matters concerning the working of boards and the due administration of wakfs."[1]

Babri Masjid dispute

Further information: Ayodhya dispute and Babri Masjid

In February 2020, the government allotted 5 acres (2.0 ha) of agricultural land at Dhannipur in Ayodhya municipal corporation to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board as an alternative site for constructing a mosque,[5] to replace the Babri Masjid that was demolished in 1992.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Wakf Act, 1954" (PDF). Central Waqf Council, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Waqf Boards". Central Waqf Council, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. 18 August 2020. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. ^ Sarvepalli Gopal, ed. (1993), "Chronology", Anatomy of a Confrontation: Ayodhya and the Rise of Communal Politics in India, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 221–222, ISBN 978-1-85649-050-4
  4. ^ Danyal, Kahkashan Y. (2015). The Law of Waqf in India. New Delhi: Regal Publications. p. 60. ISBN 9788184844726.
  5. ^ "Where is Dhannipur? All about the site allotted to Sunni Waqf Board for a mosque". India Today. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  6. ^ Sharma, Ritwik (14 February 2020). "The mood in Dhannipur, a village in Ayodhya, chosen for the 'Babri Masjid'". Business Standard. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
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