New Delhi: For the first time in its 700-year history, the accounts of the capital's famed Hazrat Nizamuddin dargah will be subjected to scrutiny by a panel approved by the Delhi High Court.
A seven-member committee comprising four representatives of the Delhi Waqf Board and three "descendants" of the noted Sufi saint will monitor the accounts of the dargah, which generates revenues running into crores of rupees every year.
A division bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justices M K Sharma and Reva Khetrapal, while granting approval to the committee, asked it to submit a preliminary report within eight weeks.
It also asked Waqf Board Standing Counsel, Najimi Waziri to examine the feasibility of including an official representative of the court in the panel.
The committee was constituted following a public interest litigation by the voluntary organisation Hum Aapke, which complained that revenue worth crores of rupees earned by the dargha annually is being pocketed by "vested interests" who claimed to be the descendents of the late Hazrat Nizamuddin.
The dargah is visited round the year by thousands of people from India and other countries.
Followers of the Saint make liberal cash donations and offerings in kind at the dargah.
Hum Aapke alleged the revenues are pocketed by "self-styled" descendants of the saint.
It urged the court to intervene to ensure that the funds were utilised only for charitable purposes in accordance with Islamic tenets.
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