Pleas Against Waqf Amendment Act Will Be Heard By CJI Sanjeev Khanna-Led Bench On April 16

Delhi/Hyderabad, April 10 (Maxim News): The Supreme Court is slated to hear next week a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.

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As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna and comprising Justices Sanjay Kumar and K.V. Viswanathan will take up the matter for hearing on April 16.

Several petitions have been filed before the top court challenging the constitutional validity of the recent amendments introduced in the Waqf Act, 1995. On Wednesday, Hindu Sena filed an intervention application before the Supreme Court supporting the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.

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“There is no violation of any right of any member of the Muslim Community. Rather the unamended provision of Waqf Act, 1995 caused serious prejudice to the right and interest of the non-Muslim members of society as in view of Section 3 read with Section 40 of Waqf Act, 1995, the properties of non-Muslim were taken over by Waqf board>” said the application filed by the National President of Hindu Sena.

It added that in view of the amendments, the non-Muslim will get justice whose properties have been taken over or claimed to the Waqf properties. After the legislation was passed in both Houses of Parliament last week, the Congress announced it will challenge the Waqf (Amendment) Bill (now an Act after the Presidential assent) before the Supreme Court, claiming that it was an attack on the basic structure of the Constitution and was aimed at ‘polarising’ and ‘dividing’ the country on the basis of religion.

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On the other hand, the government has said that crores of poor Muslims will benefit from this legislation, and in o way does it harm any single Muslim. Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has said the legislation did not interfere with the Waqf properties, adding that the Modi government works with the vision of ‘Sabka Saath and Sabka Vikas”.

In his petition filed before the apex court, Congress MP and party whip in Lok Sabha Mohammad Jawed contended that the amendments violated Articles 14 (right to equality), 25 (freedom to practice and propagate religion), 26 (freedom of religious denominations to manage their religious affairs), 29 (minority rights), and 300A (right to property) of the Constitution.

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Similarly, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has moved the Supreme Court, saying that the impugned amendments are “ex facie violative of Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30, 300A of the Constitution of India and manifestly arbitrary.”

Several others, including the Association for Protection of Civil rights, AAP leader Amanatullah Khan, Maulana Arshad Madani of Jamiat Ulema-i-Hid, All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), Indian Union Muslim League, Taiyyab Khan Salmani and Anjum Kadari, have filed the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.

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The concept of ‘Waqf,” rooted inIslamic laws and traditions, refers to an endowment made by a Muslim for charitable or religious purposes, such as mosques, schools, hospitals, or other public institutions. (Maxim News)


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