There is no trace of some 85,000 acres of waqf land under Aynuddin Haidar- Faizunnesa and Shazadi Begum Waqf Estates at Mirpur, Matikata, Duaripara and Savar areas, it has been learnt.

Most of the waqf properties of the two estates, which had been donated for religious purposes, are currently under illegal occupation of influential groups. Many of these have been grabbed through fake documents by successors to donors or even by government establishments, sources said.
The sources also said several thousand acres of waqf land of the two estates—from Bangabhaban to Chankharpul in Dhaka, Mirpur and Savar areas—are now in the government’s possession. Many government offices are now on waqf lands, such as the Bangladesh Secretariat, Rail Bhaban, Police Headquarters, Nagar Bhaban (Dhaka South City Corporation) and Savar Cantonment.
Again, many land developers and individuals have also grabbed large chunks of waqf lands in these areas, the sources added.
Admitting this, Waqf administrator Foyez Ahmad Bhuiyan told The Independent that there is no scope to recover these properties. “Once these waqf lands were under the Waqf Estate Administration, but these lands are no more in our possession due to various reasons. You have to understand the reality,” the administrator told this correspondent in reply to a query.
He said they are continuously trying to recover these lands through the legal process, but they have slim hopes. Ainuddin Haidar-Faizunnesa Waqf Estate has 12,500 acres of land and Shazadi Begum Waqf Estates 72,000 acres in Dhaka, Savar, Narayanganj and Munshiganj areas, he added. 
“There is no existence of such lands in the Waqf administration—these are there only on paper,” Bhuiyan said.
He suggested the people not to buy or lease such lands from any quarters claimed by mutawalli (custodian), as the people might be cheated otherwise. The Waqf administration has already taken  certain measures, including a ban on the transfer of waqf land and introduction of a separate ledger (khatiyan) for waqf land, in a bid to check illegal occupation, he added.
Shahzadi Begum, widow of Aga 
Mohammad Hossain of Bagdessa under the then Sadar thana of Dhaka, had contributed 72,000 acres of land for Shahzadi Begum Waqf Estate on September 6, 1895.
The sources claimed that dishonest mutawallis, with the help of occupants, have grabbed the lands over the years. Just 10 to 12 acres of the 72,000 acres of land of Shazadi Begum Waqf Estate are recorded in the name of the estate in the latest land survey, while only 84 acres of land of Aynuddin Haidar-Faizunnesa Waqf Estate—out of 12,500 acres—are recorded in various mouzas in the latest survey.