RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J: "Save valuable Wakf lands from being sold for a song" is a cry in anguish from Mirza Yaseen Ali Baig who has filed W.P. No.2l854 of 2005 in public interest to have G.O. Ms. No.22, Minorities Welfare (Wakf. I) Department, dated 18.10.2004, quashed. He also seeks to have the sale deeds, executed in favour of respondents 6 to 11 pursuant to G.O. Ms. No.22 dated 18.10.2004, set aside contending that crores of rupees worth Wakf property had been alienated to them for a pittance.

2. The petitioner's case, in short, is that the Government Qazi had sought permission for sale of Wakf lands admeasuring Ac.39.16 cts on the specious plea of safeguarding it from illegal encroachment, that while these Wakf lands would have fetched between 30 to 40 lakhs per acre the sale consideration was fixed at an abysmally low price of Rs.6 lakhs per acre and that G.O. Ms. No.22, dated 18.10.2004 was issued by the Government according sanction for its sale to respondents 6 to 11 though Wakf lands could be sold only by way of public auction after following the procedure prescribed under Section 51 of the Wakf Act. Petitioner would contend that the impugned G.O. was not only malic