Madrasa Gets Rs.150 a Month for Leasing Land to High-fee Tech College of Mahbub Alam Khan

Hyderabad: Prime accused in the murder of Wakf activist and advocate Khaja Moizuddin, Mujahid Alam Khan had leased out over four acres of land attached to Madarsa-I-Aizza to his father and co-accused Mahbub Alam Khan for a monthly rent of Rs.150 for a period of 40 years, in 2008, sources said on Monday.

The Waqf property was leased out for the meagre sum to the father by the son for establishing Nawab Shah Alam Khan College of Engineering and Technology (NSAKCET) in the same year, 2008, and, later, the Mahbub Alam College of Pharmacy at Azampura in New Malakpet.

It was stated that the college charges an annual fee of Rs.2.47 lakh for BE; Rs.1.8 lakh for BE (lateral entry); Rs.1.17 lakh for polytechnic and Rs.1.26 lakh for the ME course.

Advocate Khaja Moizuddin, struck down by an SUV on May 23, had filed a slew of cases against the father and son duo of Mahbub Alam Khan and Mujahid Alam Khan. Police have arrested the duo along with a few others and are investigating their role in the murder of Moizuddin.

As per the lease deed, Mujahid Alam Khan, as joint secretary of the madrasa, leased out more than four acres from the 6.2 acre-land parcel, including play grounds and parking area, besides a building block to his father Mahbub Alam Khan, secretary and correspondent of Anwar-ul-Uloom College of Education.

“This is a peculiar case where a son has leased out property meant for public utility to his own father for meagre Rs.150 per month. The duo serves as secretary and joint secretary of both Madrasa-I-Aizza and the Anwar-ul-Uloom college,” sources told Deccan Chronicle.

The father leased out the land of Madrasa-I-Aizza for 33 years to Neo-School Aizza for a monthly rent of Rs.100 from the remaining land of about two acres, sources said.

“Crores of income has been generated ever since the engineering college was established in 2008, but all that the Waqf Board gets is Rs.100 for month. While Mahbub Alam Khan’s family is getting the money generated from engineering college, what the historic madarsa is getting is paltry Rs.150 per month,” added the sources.

Madarsa-I-Aizza is over a century old, and came up during the time of the City Improvement Board (CIB) under the Nizam’s regime, and served for educational purposes of the elite of the time. The CIB of Hyderabad was established in 1912 by the Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan to modernise the city following the 1908 Musi River floods. The land in question belonged to a nnoble from that period. An institution was given the responsibility of running the society. After the merger of erstwhile Hyderabad state with the Indian Union, it was registered officially and became an aided institution.