WAQF Act: The three judge of the Supreme Court consisting of CJI Sanjiv Khanna, Justices PV Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan will hear 10 requests that question the WAQF Act, 2025 16 April. It is listed as item 13, bar and bench reported.
Indian EU Muslim League, AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, DMK and Raja, Muslim spiritual body of Samastha Kerala Smo-yyyathul ULAMA, All India Muslim Personal Rights (Aimplb) and Association for Civil Rights Protection.
What do petitions say?
According to Indian Express Aimim’s Owaisi, he said that the act is “apparently arbitrary, preserves discrimination for religion, violates the law of Shariiat and relieves the Muslim community the right to manage its own religious institutions.”
And PTI Report DMK Moved the Top Court Through Its General Secretary and Raja, WHICH BELIVES, DESPITE WIDESPREAD OPPOSITION, The Waqf Amendment Bill, 2025 Was Passsed by the Union Government Without and the Other stakeholders ”, adding it infringes and the rewards of the Rights of Nearly 50 Lakh Muslims in Tamil over and 20 Crore Muslims in different parts of the country.
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Aimplb spokesman, SQR Ilyas, in a press release, said the petitions were firmly protesting against the changes received by the parliament for being “arbitrary, discriminatory and based on exclusion”. These references not only violate the fundamental rights anchored in Articles 25 and 26 Indian Institutes, but also clearly indicate the government’s intention to take full control of the WAQF management, thus marginalizing the Muslim minority from their own religious foundation. Institutions for religious and charity purposes, he said.
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind also gave a petition and claimed that it was a “dangerous plot” to deprive Muslims of their religious freedom.
In his petition, Jamiat said that the law was “a direct attack on the Institute of Earth, which not only provides the same rights to its citizens, but also provides them with complete religious freedom.”
Samastha Kerala Jadiath Ulema, a religious organization of Sunni Muslim scientists and clergy in Kerala, believes that this act has been a “obvious intrusion” into the rights of religious designation to control their own affairs in a religious affair.
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The Association of NGOs for the protection of civil rights also submitted a petition to the Supreme Court, which challenged the constitutional validity of the law.
AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan asked the law to declare unconstitutional and violate “Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 300-A institutes”, PTI informed.
On Tuesday, the Center filed an objection in court and asked to hear before any orders were handed over to ongoing petitions that question the WAQF Act (amendment), 2025.
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WAQF (amendment) Bill in Parliament
The draft WAQF (amendment proposal) entered into force on April 8, Tuesday after the consent of the President of the Murmu. Lok Sabha launched a debate for 13 hours and 53 minutes and saw it 288 members who supported it and 232 against it, while the upper house had 128 members who voted in favor and 95 against it.
“In the exercise of the powers awarded by the subsection (2) of Section 1 of the WAQF Act (amendment), 2025 (14 of 2025), the Central Government hereby appoints on April 8, 2025 as the date on which the provisions of the Act come into force.”
(Tagstotranslate) WAQF BILL (T) WAQF Appendix Bill
