Hyderabad, June 22 -- The Telangana Revenue Department has handed back control of the Waqf Board's record room to the board after nine years, ending an arrangement put in place by the then chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) in November 2017.

Hyderabad Collector Dr Priyanka Ala communicated the development to Waqf Board CEO Mohammed Asadulla in a letter, stating that the handover was being made to facilitate the transfer of old records to Andhra Pradesh and to enable the uploading of Waqf property details onto the central government's UMEED portal.

KCR had ordered the Revenue Department to seal the record room in 2017, citing the need to prevent tampering of land records. The Hyderabad Collector was subsequently appointed custodian...