Waqf Act: Fresh plea filed in Supreme Court against Amendments, claims ‘blatant intrusion’

Quickly after the Waqf Modification Act, 2025 was handed in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, individuals and organisations opposing it moved to the Supreme Court and filed pleas against it. President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday gave her assent to the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2025, making it an Act. A contemporary plea has been filed in the Supreme Court difficult the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, claiming it was a “blatant intrusion” into the rights of a spiritual denomination to handle its affairs in the matter of faith.

The plea has been filed by Samastha Kerala Jamiathul Ulema, a spiritual organisation of Sunni Muslim students and clerics in Kerala.

Plea in Supreme Court against Amendments 

The petition, submitted via advocate Zulfiker Ali P S, argues that the proposed amendments would distort the spiritual nature of Waqfs and considerably hurt the democratic course of governing their administration and Waqf Boards.

The plea additional contends that the 2025 Act constitutes a direct violation of the constitutional proper of non secular denominations to handle their affairs, as protected below Article 26 of the Structure of India. It additionally irreversibly damaging the democratic course of in the administration of Waqf and Waqf Boards.

It alleged that the 2025 Act was against the federal rules of the Structure because it takes away all powers of the state governments and State Waqf Boards in reference to Waqfs and accumulates all powers into the palms of the Central authorities.

“The cumulative impact of those provisions can be extremely detrimental to Waqfs at giant and the Muslim neighborhood can be disadvantaged of enormous tract of Waqf properties on account of operation of those provisions,” the plea stated.

A number of pleas in Supreme Court

Previous to this, Congress MP Mohammad Jawed, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan moved to the Supreme Court against the Waqf Modification Act. In addition to them, an NGO — Affiliation for the Safety of Civil Rights — has additionally filed a petition in the apex court docket difficult the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Modification) Invoice, 2025.

Congress MP Jawed’s plea alleged the invoice imposed “arbitrary restrictions” on Waqf properties and their administration, undermining the Muslim neighborhood’s spiritual autonomy.

The petition, filed via advocate Anas Tanwir, stated the proposed legislation discriminated against the Muslim neighborhood by “imposing restrictions that aren’t current in the governance of different spiritual endowments”.

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