Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board

The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board (or U.P. Sunni Waqf Board) is a body constituted under The Wakf Act, 1995 of the Government of India,[1] for general superintendence of the affairs of Sunni Muslim waqf (charity) properties, waqf institutions of the Sunni Muslim community of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Its chairman is Zufar Ahmad Faruqi.[2] The Sunni Waqf Board has been the main Muslim litigant in the Babri Masjid–Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference WakfAct-1954 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Waqf Boards". Central Waqf Council, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. 18 August 2020. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  3. ^ Sarvepalli Gopal, ed. (1993), "Chronology", Anatomy of a Confrontation: Ayodhya and the Rise of Communal Politics in India, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 221–222, ISBN 978-1-85649-050-4