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Rejected : Supreme Court Turns Down Fresh Plea Challenging Constitutional Validity Of Waqf Amendment Act 2025
The Centre then assured the bench it will neither denotify waqf properties, including ‘waqf by user’, nor make any appointments to the central waqf council and boards till May 5.
The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a fresh plea challenging constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan is scheduled to hear petitions on the issue on May 5. The bench, which had earlier made it clear it will hear only five of the over 70 litigants, today again said that no more fresh pleas will be entertained on the issue.
“If you have some additional grounds, you can file an intervention application,” the CJI told the counsel for petitioner Mohammad Sultan.
On April 29, the bench refused to entertain 13 petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Act.
“We are not going to increase the number of petitions now. This will keep on piling and would become difficult to handle,” it said.
On April 17, the bench decided to hear only five of the pleas before it and titled the case: ‘In Re: Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025’.
The Centre then assured the bench it will neither denotify waqf properties, including ‘waqf by user’, nor make any appointments to the central waqf council and boards till May 5.
