Supreme Court to Decide on Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025 Stay

quick Summary

• The supreme Court of India is set to pronounce its verdict today (September 15, 2025) on a challenge to the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.
• Over 100 petitioners have described the Act as a “creeping acquisition” of Muslim properties, while the goverment defends it as necessary to counter “rampant encroachment” on public and private properties.
• A section of the amendments addresses the power to denotify waqf properties declared by courts or waqf-by-user/deed.
• during hearings in May earlier this year, arguments were made both for and against mandatory registration requirements introduced decades ago under earlier laws like those from 1923 and subsequent acts such as the Mussalman Waqf Validating Act (1913).
• Experts suggest evaluating waqfs not through religion but as matters of legal administration tied historically to transparency debates over land management policies.
• The Center argued that creating waqfs is not an essential Islamic religious practice and should be treated equivalent across charity-driven legislation spanning other groups’ guidelines.

Indian Opinion Analysis

The Supreme Court’s decision holds significant implications for balancing socio-religious concerns with administrative governance within India’s complex plural framework rules-of-faith-neutrality.EssentialQuoting