Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Dec 17: The state government reportedly has decided to move Supreme Court against the state high court order asking it to table Anwar Manippady report on embezzlement of Wakf properties in the legislature.

The high court has, after hearing a petition filed by former minster, S K Kantha, instructed the government to place the said report in the legislature either during this year or 2019. After the high court rejected the government's appeal against an earlier order and instructed the government to table the report, Wakf minister, Zameer Ahmed Khan, held discussions with officials of the minorities department and legal luminaries, besides the chief minister.

Sources said that the government has decided to go on appeal against the high court order to Supreme Court. It feels that as the recommendations of the report have already been rejected, there is no need to place the report again before the assembly.

The then chairman of Karnataka State Minorities Commission, Anwar Manippady, had submitted a report alleging that thousands of acres of land belonging to Wakf department worth crores of rupees has been encroached upon and had named leading personalities like Roshan Baig, Qamarul Islam, C M Ibrahim, Zameer Ahmed Khan, Mallikarjun Kharge etc as beneficiaries.