Wakf lands would be retrieved: Minister

 
KANNUR: Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Human Resource Development E Ahamed has said that the central and state governments were committed to retrieve lands of the WAKF Board and to give it back to the concerned society, which was used by some vested interests. He said the draft of the central WAKF Act has been passed in Lok Sabha and then tabled in the Raja Sabha. The issues relating to getting back Wakf lands would be solved after the bill is passed. There is no proper Wakf law now, he added. Mr Ahamed said some persons misused the wakf lands for personal gains by violating the objectives of the wakf Board. The Kannur divisional offices would control the functioning and monitoring of about 1400 registered institutions under the KSWB, a statutory Board in Kannur and Kasargod.