Click to play videoHyderabad: What's common to Infosys, Microsoft, Wipro and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad?
If the Andhra Pradesh State Wakf Board is to be believed, all these IT biggies and India’s premier business school have been illegally constructed on its land.
The Wakf Board has now served notices to over half-a-dozen companies including the above-mentioned and has asked the companies to either pay up or vacate the land within three months.
The Board - which is the custodian of all Wakf properties in the state - is claiming that the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation gave its land to the companies without permission.
According to the Board, in the Manikonda Jagir village in Ranga Reddy district Emmar Properties is illegally occupying 400 acres of the Board's land, ISB 250 acres, Urdu University 200 acres, Lanco 100 acres, Microsoft 55 acres, Infosys 50 acres and Wipro 38 acres.
The government says it's looking into the Board's claims.
"The claims of the Wakf Board have come very late. Almost a decade has passed, buildings have been constructed and the companies have been doing business at the international level. We will study the basis of Wakf Board's claim,” says Wakf Minister Mohammad Ali Shabbir.
The Wakf Board on its part says it learnt about the encroachments only recently, during an on-going survey of Wakf properties in the state.
The companies are not willing to react on this controversy while APIIC wants to remain silent till it prepares an explanation.
On the other side, Wakf Board has given three options to companies: purchase the land at the present market rate, sign a new lease agreement with the Wakf Board or vacate the land within three months.
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