Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday responded to the case of alleged land grabbing filed by ACB against him and seven others.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that a news item carried by certain media is doing the rounds claiming that ACB Srinagar has filed an FIR against Mirwaiz and his kin in the land allotment case of his residence in Nigeen, by the custodian department and if proven the authorities will confiscate Mirwaiz’s house and land and he will be evicted.
The statement further said that the attempt to malign and harass Mirwaiz is clear from this threat in media, when Mirwaiz received no intimation or notice of this matter.
“It is part of the same vehement print, electronic and social media propaganda carried out against the Mirwaiz in 2018 when multiple properties including the properties of Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid, Anjuman Nusratul Islam, Darul ul Khair, Mirwaiz Manzil were all attributed to him and later all proved to be false and baseless. These things will not cow Mirwaiz down,” the statement added.
“No property at present – house or land – belongs to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in Nigeen. The residential land and house in which he lives in Nigeen was purchased and built upon by his father Shaheed-e-Millat Mirwaiz Molvi Mohammad Farooq in 1973, the same year that Mirwaiz Umar was born. Its boundary walls are the same since that year,” it said.