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CHENNAI, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020

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Part II—Section 2

Notifi cations or Orders of interest to a Section of the public

issued by Secretariat Departments.

NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

BACKWARD CLASSES, MOST BACKWARD CLASSES AND MINORITIES WELFARE DEPARTMENT

CONDUCT OF ELECTION FOR MEMBERS OF TAMIL NADU WAQF BOARD UNDER THE WAQF ACT, 1995.

DEFERMENT OF MUTAWALLIS ELECTION

[Letter No.4055/T1/2020-02, dated 18-08-2020]

No. II(2)/BCMBCMW/506(d)/2020.

Whereas Election programme for election of members to the Tamil Nadu Wakf Board from the electoral colleges consisting

of Muslim Members of Parliament, State Legislature, Muslim Ex-Members of Bar Council and Mutawallis has been notifi ed

in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary dated 15-07-2020. As per the Notifi cation, election for the category of

Mutawallis was scheduled to be held on 19-08-2020.

The Hon’ble High Court of Madras, Writ Petitions W.P. No.726/2020, W.P. No.8377/2020 and W.P. No.9557/2020 were

fi led challenging the supersession of the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board and the election notifi cation for reconstituting Waqf Board.

In the above Writ Petitions, Hon’ble High Court of Madras in its order dated 17-8-2020 has upheld the order of the

supersession of the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board except in respect of two persons elected from Mutawalli category namely, Thiru.

Syed Ali Akbar and Dr. Haja K. Majeed.

In view of the above orders of the High Court of Madras, the election scheduled to be held on 19-08-2020 for electing

two members in the category of Mutawallis is deferred.

CHANDRA MOHAN. B,

Election Authority and Principal Secretary to Government,

Backward Classes, Most Backward

Classes and Minorities Welfare Department.

Secretariat, Chennai-9.

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