India, Oct. 22 -- Maharashtra has around 97,000 acres of Waqf land. The Marathas and Peshwas who ruled Maharashtra in 18h century also documented the land as waqf property. In 1923, during the British rule, the document was again notified as waqf property in the Bombay gazette. The survey of 1997-2000 confirmed it again. Earlier too the Congress party urged and demanded a full-fledged probe into the Waqf properties, as number of properties, encroachments and the ongoing disputes, especially between the Revenue and other government departments with the Waqf Board. There are many accusations of corruption against several officials of the Waqf board suggest that the real duties of these officials have changed from maintaining of Waqf propert...