The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider the question of interim relief on pleas challenging validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 on May 20.
Waqf Row: SC To Consider Question Of Interim Relief In Pleas Challenging Validity On May 20
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai and AG Masih today asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, to file their written notes by Monday, May 19.
According to Live Law, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai and AG Masih today heard Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal, Rajiv Dhavan Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Huzefa Ahmedi and CU Singh (for petitioners) and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta (Respondent-Union).
The bench also asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, to file their written notes by Monday, May 19.
“We will be considering the issue of interim relief only on Tuesday (May 20, 2025),” the CJI said while adjourning the hearing on the pleas. The Bench said it will not consider any plea seeking a stay of provisions of earlier 1995 Waqf law when the matters are taken up on May 20, 2025.
Former CJI Sanjiv Khanna, whose bench was hearing the matter, demitted office on May 13.
SC also asserted that it would not permit any challenge to the Waqf Act, 1995 in a matter pertaining to the challenge to the 2025 Act.
"We will not consider any request or stay of the provisions of the 1995 Act. We are making it clear. Just because someone is trying to make a challenge to the 2025 Act, somebody just wants to jump in and challenge 1995 Act-that will not be permissible", Live Law reported quoting the bench.
In the meanwhile, the law officer said that in any case, there is a subsisting assurance of the Centre that no waqf properties, including those established by waqf by user, would be denotified.
Earlier, the law officer had also assured that no appointments to the Central Waqf Council or State Waqf Boards would be made under the new law.
On April 25, the central ministry of minority affairs filed a preliminary 1,332-page affidavit defending the amended Waqf Act of 2025.
The Centre urged the top court to dismiss the pleas challenging the validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, pointing out a "mischievous false narrative" surrounding certain provisions.
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The Centre notified the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 after it got President Droupadi Murmu's assent on April 5.
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