Waqf board move to earmark land as graveyard hits hurdle in Telangana

A time aft the Telangana State Waqf Board issued proceedings and allotted a 2,500 quadrate gait onshore parcel for a graveyard, the determination deed a hurdle connected Sunday (October 5, 2025) with defence officials raising concerns implicit the matter.

Minister in-charge of Hyderabad Ponnam Prabhakar, Minister for Minorities Welfare Adluri Laxman, and TGWB Chairman Syed Azmatullah Husseni astatine a gathering successful the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency, which is scheduled to spell for bypolls, had announced to the nationalist connected Sunday the earmarking of waqf onshore for the graveyards, a long-standing request of locals. However, Defence officials aboriginal successful the time raised definite objections.

Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Husseni said that the onshore parcel is simply a waqf successful quality and it was based connected the gazette notification, which was earmarked for the intent of a graveyard. “They saw enactment determination [at the onshore parcel] and came to cheque what was happening. Since it is adjacent to the Army area, they had travel over. It is simply a process. Our unit person handed implicit copies definite documents to the defence radical which shows that the onshore is waqf. Our unit is going to conscionable the acrophobic Army officials time to sermon the issue,” helium said, adding that the committee and the authorities acted successful accordance with documents successful their possession.