SC refuses to entertain recent pleas difficult Waqf (Modification) Act

The Supreme Court docket on 29 April, Tuesday, refused to entertain 13 extra petitions difficult the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, saying it can not add any extra pleas as they’d develop into troublesome to “deal with”.

“We aren’t going to extend the variety of petitions now…This may carry on piling and would develop into troublesome to deal with,” a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar stated when a battery of legal professionals of a number of petitioners urged that they be additionally heard together with different petitioners.

The bench, nonetheless, requested the petitioners, together with Firoz Iqbal Khan, Imran Pratapgadhi, Shaik Muneer Ahmad and Muslim Advocates Affiliation, to intervene in the primary pleas if they’ve extra grounds to problem the brand new waqf legislation.

“We’ll hear all… 5 instances have been registered. If you wish to argue extra factors, then transfer impleadment purposes,” the CJI stated.

The bench handed an analogous order on Monday, 28 April, and requested counsel for the petitioner Syed Ali Akbar to file an intervention software in pending 5 instances which shall be taken up on 5 Might for passing interim orders.

On 17 April, the bench determined to listen to solely 5 of the entire variety of pleas earlier than it and titled the case: “In Re: Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025”.

About 72 petitions, together with these by AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, All India Muslim Private Regulation Board (AIMPLB), Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Anwar Basha former chairman Karnataka State Board of AUQAF represented by advocate Tariq Ahmed, Congress MPs Imran Pratapgarhi and Mohammad Jawed, had been filed in opposition to the legislation.