On September 13, Twitter user Anshul Saxena, who claims to be a ‘news junkie’, ‘observer and analyst’ tweeting ‘informative facts and opinions’, shared a tweet containing a table of data on Waqf properties in India, and wrote: “6.1 lakh Waqf properties across India reported till January 2020. And, many properties have been illegally encroached across India by Waqf board. Here are details till January 2020.”
Saxena later deleted the tweet. An archive of the tweet can be viewed here.
Waqf or Wakf, according to the Ninth report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Wakf presented to the Rajya Sabha on October 23, 2008, is “a religious endowment in Islam, which could either be a building or plot of land that can be devoted for the Muslim religious or charitable purposes or for the welfare of the poor and the needy belonging to he Muslim community.”
Saxena interpreted the data under the head ‘encroachment’ in the extreme right column in the table as properties encroached upon by Waqf boards.
The tweet was retweeted and quote-tweeted over 6,200 times and received over 12,000 likes before it was taken down.
A user named Alagesh Chelliah made the same claim while sharing the table.
6.1 lakh Waqf properties across India reported till January 2020. Many properties have been illegally encroached across India by Waqf board. Here are details till January 2020.
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