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The dispute dates back to a decades lease contract between the Talking Committee to TALPARAMBA JAMES MOSQUE Y CDMEA, the body administered by Sir Syed College.
The university has been accused of trying to usurp the earth with deceptive documents.
A dispute over 25 WAQF Housing Sir Syed College lands in the Kannur Kerala district became a complete political controversy after the WAQF Protection Committee accused the university administration of trying an illegitimate cut.
The dispute dates back to a decades lease contract between the Talyparamba James Mosque Talking Committee and the Muslim Educational Association of the Kannur District (CDMEA), the body administered by Sir Syed College. For more than half a century, CDMEA has a hero the land under lease, but that understanding is now challenged with the accusations of Forder, Mad Faith and an offer to take advantage of the property of WAQF, the appearance of legal technicalities.
The WAQF Protection Committee claimed that the University’s management falsely claimed that the entire tract belongs to Ettisserry Ilam in Nareekott, not James Trust, an claim that, if the court accepts, it could redefine legal.
“The university has been paying the lease quotas for 56 years. Suddenly in 2022, they stopped. Then they went to court, questioning the lease they once honored,” said KPM Riyas, secretary of the WAQF Protection Committee. In addition, he said that only two acres acres had a historical connection with Ettisserry Illam, and that the same as those two were formally recorded under James Trust a long time ago.
The original lease, signed in 1967 by lawyer Khalid, a legal luminaire who later served as judge of the Superior Court, laid the foundations for the university’s operations. That agreement, according to the WAQF Protection Committee, has now been unilaterally challenged by the current university administration through a request presented in 2025, effective seeking to cancel its terms.
CDMEA, however, insisted that his judicial request simply seeks to update the Thandapper (Earth Tax) Documents and that is still the legitimate lessee under a valid 99 -year lease agreement. The secretary of CDMEA, Muhammed Alamulam, claimed that the Urrar is being manufactured by a group that tries to retroactively manipulate the records in his favor.
“We are not taking country. We are updating documents to reflect what is already an established agreement,” said Alamkulam. “This land has always managed by James Trust, and we have followed the legal process from the beginning,” he added.
As the matter won public traction, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) intervened, adding a political advantage to the legal battle over low heat. The member of the State Secretariat of CPM, MV Jayarajan, condemned the measure as a “WAQF land scam” and urged the public to protest. He accused the Muslim League, under whose banner the CDMEA operates, or trying to usurp the land of the community under an institutional property veil.
The CDMEA has submitted a petition to the Superior Court of Kerala that affirms its claim, backed by the original lease contract of the TALPARAMBA Jamat Mosque Trust. The petition emphasized that the property dispute had already been addressed in previous procedures, even in the WAQF court, and constantly confirmed the property of the trust, a position that CDMEA said it respected.
However, the WAQF Protection Committee questioned why the prominent figures of the Muslim League, including KV Muhammed Kunju, former member of the James Committee, never played the lease when they were in office. This, they argue, suggest that current objections are politically motivated or based on recently invented statements.
With the case now before the Superior Court and the Office of Division of Revenue of TALPARAMBA (RDO), the CDMEA requested that more processes be remained until a verdict is delivered.
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Kerala, India, India