Supreme Court docket to listen to pleas towards Waqf Modification Act
“It’s submitted that there have been reported misuse of Waqf provisions to encroach on personal properties and authorities properties. It’s actually stunning to know that after the modification introduced within the yr 2013, there’s a 116 per cent rise in Waqf space,” the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs mentioned.
The Centre, in its reply doc filed earlier than the highest courtroom, mentioned that it was discovered that many of the Waqf Boards have been functioning within the “most non-transparent method” and have both not uploaded the main points within the public area or have uploaded partial particulars.
It mentioned that beneath the previous regime, as a result of absence of satisfactory safeguards, authorities properties and even personal properties have been declared as Waqf properties.
“The provisions of Sections 3A, 3B, and 3C care for the mentioned scenario, which has been prevailing for a number of many years. It’s submitted that there are startling examples whereby the federal government lands and even the personal lands have been declared as Waqf properties,” it mentioned within the affidavit.
The Union authorities mentioned that the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, was handed with the target of modernising the administration of Waqf properties in India by clear, environment friendly and inclusive measures.
It argued that the reforms launched are directed solely on the secular and administrative features of Waqf establishments – akin to property administration, record-keeping, and governance constructions – with out impinging upon any important non secular practices or tenets of the Islamic religion.
The idea of ‘Waqf’, rooted in Islamic legal guidelines and traditions, refers to an endowment made by a Muslim for charitable or non secular functions, akin to mosques, faculties, hospitals, or different public establishments.
