Waqf Board functioning without mandatory inclusion of non-Muslim members, says petition before HC

The State Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Shone George has approached the Kerala High Court, alleging that the State Waqf Board is functioning without the ‘mandatory inclusion of non-Muslim members’.

The Waqf Amendment Act mandates that astatine slightest 2 members of the Board, excluding ex-officio members indispensable beryllium non-Muslims, successful bid to guarantee secular oversight, nonrecreational diversity, and fiscal accountability successful administration, helium said.

The State has deliberately flouted this statutory requirement, by nominating a Board consisting wholly of Muslims. Through an bid dated February 4, the State appointed 9 members, each of whom are Muslims, portion concluding the bid with an assurance that the remaining 2 members would beryllium appointed shortly. A specified committedness of aboriginal compliance, cannot legitimize the Board’s existent allegedly amerciable functioning, the petitioner submitted earlier the HC.