Registration of property documents in Thiruchendurai village near here that got obstructed in the wake of ownership claim of entire village by the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board, has been restored temporarily.
According to sources, the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board, a statutory body established under the Waqf Act 1954 that supervises and manages Waqf institutions and properties in the State, sent a communication to a Sub-Registrar in Tiruchi recently, claiming that an entire piece of land measuring about 480 acres in Thiruchendurai village belonged to it and those who want to register a deed for any land in the village should get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from Waqf Board. As per the communication, the Chandrasekha Swamy Temple in Thiruchendurai on the southern banks of the Cauvery and its lands also comes under ownership of the Waqf Board.
Complying with the communication, the Joint III Sub-Registrar of Tiruchi was said to have asked a person of Mukkikarupur, who reportedly owns a piece of agricultural land in Thiruchendurai village, to get NOC from the Waqf Board when he approached the Sub-Registrar for deed registration recently.
