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WAQF Property: The Taj Mahal Waqf Board is part, on which a businessman of Firozabad, Irfan Bedar UP Sunni Waqf Board reached and he appealed that Taj Mahal be declared a waqf property. What is the whole matter, let’s tell.
Waqf Property: The Taj Mahal situated in Agar is considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. Please tell that in the world it is also recognized as a symbol of love, it is considered a sign of love. But in recent years the debate started that whose ownership of the Taj Mahal is. Not only this, this question also became the cause of legal quarrels and political dispute. All this happened when the UP Waqf Board claimed that the Taj Mahal belongs to him and only after that the legal tug of war started in the Government of India and the Waqf Board.
What claim did Waqf claim?
Let us know that in 1998, Irfan Bedar, a businessman from Firozabad, reached the UP Sunni Waqf Board. He appealed to declare Taj Mahal as a Waqf property. He said that the Taj Mahal has religious and historical significance, so it should be considered as a waqf property and after that the Waqf Board then sent a notice to the Archaeological Survey of India which manages the Taj Mahal.
What did the Supreme Court say?
Irfan Bedar did not stop, he reached the Allahabad High Court in 2004 and asked for legal help. He asked the Waqf Board to look into the issue from the Waqf Board. Then in 2005, the Waqf Board declared the Taj Mahal a Waqf property and it was challenged by the ASI in the Supreme Court. According to a report, the Supreme Court sought evidence whether Shah Jahan himself had declared the Taj Mahal Waqf property and then the Supreme Court stayed the Waqf’s decision and ordered an inquiry.
After this, there was a hearing again in the April Supreme Court in 2018 and the SC demanded Shah Jahan’s signature papers from the Waqf Board. Now in the middle of 2018, when the Waqf Board felt that he would not be able to take ownership of the Taj Mahal without papers, the board gave up this claim and laid away its hands.
The Taj Mahal belongs to the Government of India
At the same time, according to some reports, it is said that a notification was issued in which the Taj Mahal was declared a protected building and since then it is the property of the Government of India. Earlier in 1858, the property owned by Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar went to the Queen of Britain.
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