Hours after the Uttar Pradesh government ordered dissolution of Shia and Sunni waqf boards, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday night recommended a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities worth several crores committed by the two bodies in the State.
“The Chief Minister recommended a CBI probe into alleged scam worth crores in Shia and Sunni waqf boards,” Minister of State for Waqf Mohsin Raza told PTI here.
Mr. Raza said scam worth crores had come to the fore in a probe by the Waqf Council of India.
The Chief Minister had also given orders to dissolve both State Shia and Sunni waqf boards.
The process to dissolve the two boards had been started after taking into account all legal aspects, the Minister said.
There have been serious allegations of corruption against the Shia and Sunni waqf boards related to their properties.
The role of the chairman of the Shia Waqf Board, Wasim Rizvi, as well as the Minister for Waqf in the previous Samajwadi Party government, Azam Khan, had come under scanner after the inquiry by the Waqf Council of India.
Barely a fortnight after the SP suffered a humiliating defeat in the Assembly polls, a report by the fact-finding committee of the Central Waqf Council indicted Mr. Khan — controversial minister in the Akhilesh Yadav regime — of corruption, mismanagement and misuse of office.
