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(iii) Under section 6 of the Wakf Act 1954, if any dispute arises on a property
declared as a wakf property, a claim can be raised within one year of the
publication of the notification. There is a prohibition on alienation under
rule 5 of the Wakf Rules framed under the Wakf Act, 1965 unless
approved by a two-thirds majority of the Wakf Board;
(iv) A person by the name of H.S. Gururajarao and his brothers were granted
a lease over the schedule suit property on 8 December 1944 by the Muzrai
officer to run a ‘cinema talkies’. A suit, OS 748/1968, was instituted by the
Wakf Board against the Abdul Khuddus and H.S. Gururajarao seeking
possession of the suit property and a declaration that the property
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constitutes a wakf. The suit was compromised with Abdul Khuddus being
permitted to collect the rent from the lessee (H S Gururajarao) on behalf of
the Board;