Petitioners are in occupation of a building belonging to Wakf Board. This property originally belonged to a Trustee represented by its Managing Trustee H.E. Mohammed Babu Sail. It was later declared as a Wakf property. According to the petitioners, they have been in occupation of this building for the last 14 years and on 17-10-1986 the Kerala Wakf Board published a notification for the sale of the building in question. The notification specified that there could be either separate tenders or a composite tender. Petitioners submitted tenders for getting their respective portions of property which is possessed by them. Initially the Wakf Board was prepared to accept the tender but later they re-tendered for the whole land and building. One Gopala Pai Reveendra Nath Pai submitted a tender and the same was accepted. The land and buildings were given in his favour. Petitioners preferred an appeal before the Secretary, Department of Revenue, Trivandrum. Petitioners wanted the Government to exercise the power vested on the Government under Ss.63 and 64 of the Wakf Act, 1954. Petitioners were intimated that they were not entitled to get any benefit under the Wakf Act and they