On Thursday, the Supreme Court reserved its interim orders for three questions, including the power to mark real estate declared as “WAQF courts, waqf-by-use or Waqf documents” after hearing a clutch of action that question the validity of the WAQF law (amendments), 2025.
Before reserving temporary orders, the bench consisted of the main judge BR Gavai and Justine George Masih, the head of the champion of Sibal, Rajeev Dhavan and Abhishek Singhvi on behalf of those who were against the amended Waqf law and Tushar Mehta.
The center prevented this act strongly and claims that WAQF by its nature itself is a “secular concept” and cannot be remained due to the “conjecture presumption” in its favor.
Sibal, head of the petitioner, described the law as “complete departure from historical and constitutional principles” and a means of “capturing WAQF through the non -udicial process”.
“This is a case of systematic WAQF real estate.
At this stage, the petitioners were looking for interim commands concerning three key questions.
One of the problems related to the powers to mark real estate declared as WAQF courts, waqf-by-use or WAQF document.
The second problem was the composition of the State Council and the Central Waqf Council, claiming that only Muslims should work, except for former members of off-offs, while the last one is above this provision that will not be treated as WAQF when the collector conducts an investigation to see if it is a government land.
On April 25, the Ministry for Minorities filed preliminary departments 1,332-sided statement, advocated by the amended WAQF law from 2025 and opposed any “general residence” by the court on the “Concomitulance of the Constitutional Parliament”.
The Center announced the WAQF Act (amendment), 2025 last month after the 5th April’s approval of President Murmu.
The bill was cleaned by Lok Sabha with the support of 288 members, while 232 deputies were against him. Rajya Sabha saw the vote of 128 members in their favor and 95 against him.
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