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The Supreme Court is scheduled to listen to requests that question the constitutional validity of the WAQF Law. Meanwhile, six states governed by BJP have presented requests that emphasize legal ramifications if the law is deactivated.
Supreme Court of India. (File photo/PTI)
The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday, a group of requests that defy the constitutional valility of the WAQF (amendment), 2025 law.
It is likely that a bank of three judges composed of the president of the Supreme Court Sanjiv Khanna and Judges Sanjay Kumar and KV Viewanathan will be in charge of the hearing at 2 in the afternoon today.
As the legislation in Parliament was approved in the first week of April, Congress announced that it would challenge the WAQF bill (amendment) (now a law after presidential assent) before the Supreme Court.
The party had affirmed that it was an attack on the basic structure of the Constitution and aimed to “polarize” and “divide” the country at the base of religion.
In his request presented to the Court, the deputy of the Congress and the party party in Lok Sabha Mohammad Jawed said that the amendments violated articles 14 (right to equality), 25 (freedom to practice and propagate religion), Mintigious, denomination rights) and 300a (right to property) of the Constitution.
Another request presented by all of India Majlis-E-Nitehadul Muslime (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi declared that the challenged amendments are “former rapes of articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 29, 30, 300a of the proof of the constancy of the constancy or the constancy or the constancy or the constancy.
Several others, including the Association for the Protection of Civil Rights, the leader of the AAP, Amanatullah Khan, Maulana Arshad Madani or Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind, the Muslim Personal Law Board of All India (AIMPLB), the LAG of the Social Demian or India Party) Khan Salmani and Anjum Kadari, have presented the requests that challenge the constitutional validity of the constitutional validity of The WAQF (AMENSE, 2025.
On the other hand, six states of BJP, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Assam-Have presented separate pleas that highlight the possible administrative and legal branches or the WAQF. Act. Act. Act. Act.
The government said that millions of poor Muslims will benefit from this legislation, and in no way harms any Muslim.
The Minority Affairs Minister Kire Rijijuu said that the legislation did not interfere with the WAQF properties, added that the Modi government works with the vision of ‘Sabka Saath and Sabka Vikas’.
Supplica for different states
Haryana, who has presented the intervention in the main petition, emphasized the urgent need for reform in WAQF property administration.
The state government pointed out persistent issues, such as incomplete properties surveys, lack of adequate accounting, long -standing cases in the WAQF courts and irregular or missing records of real estate mutations.
He said that the amended law seeks to bring a unified structure for WAQF management and guarantee greater supervision of mutawallis (custodians).
The Maharashtra government said that it is crucial to help the Apex court providing parliamentary records, recommendations of the national consultation committee and ideas.
He also promised to share comparative frameworks or laws of religious endowment throughout India together with empirical data that highlights the misuse and lack of transparency in the WAQF administration.
According to Madhya Pradesh’s plea, WAQF’s law aims to achieve significant reforms in governance and regulation of WAQF properties.
The State emphasized that the law provides a legally robust system based on technology that promotes transparency, responsibility and socioeconomic elevation of the expected beneficiaries.
The Rajasthan government raised Conerns about past practices where the properties, either privately or held the state, declared assets without due process.
The new provisions, he said, correct this ordering a 90 -day public notice in two newspapers widely circulated before said statement.
This movement, according to Rajasthan, guarantees transparency and procedural equity by giving affected stakeholders the opportunity to raise objections.
Chhattisgarh, in his plea, stressed the importance of simplifying administrative procedures and improving coordination between WAQF Boards and local authorities.
The creation of a digital portal for WAQF Property Management, the State said, will help better monitoring, identification and audit of assets, strengthening transparency in financial practices.
Assam’s pleaea attracted attention to section 3 of the amended law, which prohibits any land statement in scheduled or tribal areas, covered by the fifth or sixth schedule of the Constitution, as owned by WAQF.
The State pointed out that eight of its 35 districts fall at the sixth schedule and, therefore, has a direct participation in the result of the case.
The WAQF Board of Uttarakhand, which has been supporting the WAQF (amendment) law, has also submitted a request to the Supreme Court that seeks permission to intervene in the writing request presented by Owaisi that challenges the constitutional validity of the law.
The concept of ‘WAQF’, rooted in Islamic 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.
