Telangana high court issues notices to state, TSWB over burials

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Thursday issued notices to the government, revenue department and Telangana State Waqf Board (TSWB), asking them to respond to the contents of a PIL that charged religious authorities with not allowing bodies of Covid-19 victims to be buried.
A bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijayaen Reddy was hearing a case filed by Abid Rasool Khan, former chairman of the Telangana State Minorities Commission, who brought to the notice of the court the plight of Muslims during the ongoing pandemic where authorities were not allowing victims’ bodies to be buried at the designated graveyards.
Khan wanted the management of Waqf committee to be entrusted to revenue officials during the current crisis. The bench appointed advocate Sanisetti Venkateswarlu as amicus-curiae to assist the court as he had brought to the notice of the court one such case. The case was posted for further hearing in two weeks.