India, April 16 -- The Waqf Board has claimed a village with 60 families in Tamil Nadu's Vellore saying that the land belongs to it since 1955 and has asked the residents to pay rental. Following this, the residents have approached the government and said that they have been living there for generations, officials aware of the matter said on Tuesday.

The development took place days after the Waqf (Amendment) Act was enforced on April 5 with the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government strongly opposing its passage.

The Syed Ali Sultan Shah Dargah in Virinchipuram has issued the notice to 60 families in Kattukollai village in Vellore. "Most of them are joint families and there are about 150 of them. They have occupied around 5 acres out of the 6.5 ...