Shahnawaz Qasim is the new Waqf board CEO

Hyderabad: Within a month after the Telangana high court directed the government to relieve Mohammed Qasim from the post of CEO, State Waqf Board, the government has appointed DIG rank IPS officer, Shahnawaz Qasim, as its new CEO.

The minorities welfare department, on Monday, issued orders appointing director of minority welfare, Shahnawaz Qasim to the post. Qasim belongs to the 2003 batch of IPS officers and was allotted to the Telangana cadre during the bifurcation of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.

In November, a bench comprising Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy expressed anguish against the then CEO Mohammed Qasim, for failing to protect waqf properties. The Telangana high court had asked the government to replace him immediately, with someone who would be able to do the job better.

Taking a strong note of the high court's remarks, the state government transferred him and appointed Shahnawaz Qasim to the post.

In 2018 also Shahnawaz Qasim has held temporary charge for a month.