The Karnataka government has warned that disciplinary action will be tak🌊en against those o𒁃fficials who change the land mutation records and serve eviction notices to farmers under the Waqf Act.
In a letꦜter, the Revenue Department Principal Secretary Rajender Kumar Kataria reminded all regional commissioners and deputy commissioners in the districts that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah recently had a meeting following complaints about certain land properties being made in favour of the Karnataka Boar꧅d of Waqfs.
In the meeting it was decided that all the directions issued previously by any government office or authority to change the muta♓tion records had been withdrawn, the letter said.
It♏ added that all the notices served in the past have also been withdrawn and no action should be taken against the farmers who are cultivating on the said land.
On the directions of the chief minister, the previous letters and th💙e latest reminders served on November 7 to the farmeꦕrs and landowners have been withdrawn, the letter said.
"The oౠfficials who served reminder-2 d﷽espite the chief minister's direction will face appropriate disciplinary action," Kataria said in his letter.
He ꦬsaid he has been instructed to strictly implement the chief m꧟inister's direction.
The fresh direction was issued i💖n poll-bound Karnataka, where bypolls to three crucial assembly segments are due on November 🐼13.
Some farmers in Honwad village in Vijayapura in north Karnat🐼aka had alleged last month that they were served eviction notices as the Waqf Board claimed rights over it.
Subsequently, complaints started pouring in from some other pa⛄rts of the 🌠state.
BJP leader Tejasvi Surya on October 25 alleged that K⛄arnataka Waqf Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan directed the deputy commissioners and revenue officials to register lands in favour of the Waqf Board within 15 days, which resulted in confusion.
On Surya's request, the Chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, Jagdambika Pal visited Kওarnataka on November 7 and met farmers in Hubballi, Vijayapura and Belagavi districts who had alleged that their lands wer🌱e marked as Waqf properties.
