Akbaruddin Owaisi Attack Conspirator Muhammed Pahelwan Occupied Wakf lands

Akbaruddin Owaisi Attack Conspirator Muhammed Pahelwan Occupied Wakf lands

April 30: The Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA, Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi, and other MIM leaders, along with the Collector and mandal revenue officials, had been actively trying to recover land worth hundreds of crores situated four km from the Shamshabad International Airport.

Sources said this was the prime reason the alleged land-grabber, history-sheeter and hotel owner, Mr Mohammad Bin Omer Yafai, aka Mohammad Pahelwan, wanted Mr Owaisi out of the picture.
Sources said Pahelwan and his family felt threatened by Mr Owaisi and the feeling had grown as revenue authorities took possession of over 120 acres belonging to Pahelwan and his family and friends in the last four years. Pahelwan and others are still fighting the case in various courts, claiming ownership of the above lands.

Pahelwan, who is a well-known realtor in the old city, is known for his above-board dealings with people. However, it is not clear how the Pahelwans managed to buy such large chunks of land. About Saturday’s attack on Mr Owaisi, the police said that it was a pre-planned act. “The motive of the offence was previous enmity and land dispute at Bandlaguda, Balapur, Shaheennagar and Balapur Graveyard as the MLA, Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi, after the Rachchabanda programme, identifying government lands which Pahelwan and his family had illegally occupied and sold,” said a source.

The home minister, Ms P. Sabita Indra Reddy, too said that “land dispute” was the motive behind the attack on Mr Owaisi. She said that he and other MIM MLAs had brought the issue of encroachment of Wakf properties in the old city to her notice several times. “The MIM MLAs had informed me that Owaisi was resisting the encroachment of Wakf properties by some persons with vested interests. Owaisi has been taking up the issue of Wakf properties in the Assembly. He had asked for a House Committee to inquire into the issue even in the recently-concluded Budget session. Thus the land encroachers developed a grudge against the MLA and attacked him while he was returning after participating in a government programme,” she said.

The government land in Bandlaguda and Bahadurpura mandals besides the state Wakf Board owned-lands have been encroached upon by the Pahelwans and supporters of both the MIM and the Majlis Bachao Tehreek and complaints from workers of both the parties against each other over land-grabbing had resulted in the Hyderabad District Collectorate authorities taking back nearly five acres at various places in the two mandals.

However, the real trouble started from April 13 when the Hyderabad district collector, Mr N. Gulzar, along with officials from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation jointly inspected lands in survey number191 (10 acres) and Survey Number 302 (one acre five guntas) at Kandikal revenue village of Bandlaguda mandal. This land is a patta land and is reportedly owned by Pahelwan and his family members and relatives.

Matters had worsened with the collectorate authorities identifying three to four pieces of land for setting up a unit of National Academy of Construction (NAC) at Bandlaguda in the old city. Some of this land is reportedly owned by supporters of Pahelwan. The MIM had urged the government to set up a branch of NAC in the old city and the CM had announced the same a couple of months ago at a public meeting in the old city.