After Congress, Owaisi, AAP too challenges Waqf Bill in Supreme Court
The plea argued the amendments "irreversibly dilute" the statutory protections afforded to Waqfs and their regulatory framework while giving "undue advantage" to other stakeholders and interest groups, undermining years of progress and pushing back Waqf management by several decades.
Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan has moved the Supreme Court, spirited the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2025. On Friday, Congress MP Mohammad Jawed and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi moved the apex courtroom, spirited the validity of the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2025, asserting it violated the constitutional provisions.
In his plea, Khan sought that the Waqf (Modification) Invoice be declared as “unconstitutional and being violative of Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 300-A of the Constitution” and sought direction for inserting it down.
“The Invoice violates fundamental rights enshrined below Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30, and 300-A of the Constitution. It curtails the non secular and cultural autonomy of Muslims, enables arbitrary govt interference, and undermines minority rights to administer their non secular and charitable establishments,” Khan’s plea talked about.
Jawed’s plea alleged the Invoice imposed “arbitrary restrictions” on Waqf properties and their management, undermining the non secular autonomy of the Muslim community.
The petition, filed by contrivance of advocate Anas Tanwir, talked about the proposed law discriminated against the Muslim community by “imposing restrictions which would be no longer expose in the governance of other non secular endowments”.
The Invoice change into handed in the Rajya Sabha with 128 individuals vote casting in favour and 95 opposing it. It change into handed in the Lok Sabha early April 3 with 288 individuals supporting it and 232 against it.
Jawed, a Lok Sabha MP from Kishanganj in Bihar, change into a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Invoice and has alleged in his plea that the Invoice “introduces restrictions on the creation of Waqfs in conserving with the length of one’s non secular practice”.
“This kind of limitation is untrue in Islamic law, custom or precedent and infringes upon the fundamental factual to profess and practice religion below Article 25,” it talked about.
In his separate plea, Owaisi talked about the Invoice takes a long way from Waqfs barely a pair of protections that had been accorded to Waqfs and Hindu, Jain, and Sikh non secular and charitable endowments alike.
Owaisi’s plea, filed by advocate Lzafeer Ahmad, talked about, “This diminishing of the safety given to Waqfs whereas maintaining them for non secular and charitable endowments of other religions constitutes adverse discrimination against Muslims and is violative of Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution, which restrict discrimination on the grounds of religion.”
The plea argued the amendments “irreversibly dilute” the statutory protections afforded to Waqfs and their regulatory framework whereas giving “undue relieve” to other stakeholders and curiosity teams, undermining years of development and pushing aid Waqf management by plenty of a long time.
“Appointing non-Muslims on the Central Waqf Council and the Boom Waqf Boards disturbs this gentle constitutional balance and tilts it to the detriment of the factual of Muslims as a non secular community to remain as much as tempo of their Waqf properties,” Owaisi talked about.
(With Agency inputs)
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