Waqf Act: SC says undoing ‘waqf by user’ will have consequences, adds ‘you cannot undo the past’ | 10 points

The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday began a listening to on a bunch of petitions difficult the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, and through the listening to of the matter, the apex court docket instructed Centre, ‘You cannot undo the previous’.

Throughout the listening to of the matter, Justice Khanna said that when a public belief was declared Waqf 100 or 200 years in the past and out of the blue you say it’s being taken over by the Waqf Board and declared in any other case, Mehra intervened and stated that it means if one has a Waqf, it may be made right into a belief, and there may be an enabling provision for it. To this, Chief Justice remarked, “You cannot rewrite the previous!”

Verify the prime 10 developments of the listening to in the Supreme Court docket:

1. The Supreme Court docket requested the Centre how ‘waqfs-by-user’ could be registered, as there could also be an absence of paperwork.
2. The Supreme Court docket additionally instructed the Solicitor Basic that if waqf-by-user properties are denotified, it will be a difficulty.
3. The apex court docket noticed that any property declared waqf or any property declared waqf by the consumer or declared by the court docket shall not be de-notified.
4. The CJI requested the Solicitor Basic about how the authorities will register such waqfs-by-user and what paperwork they will have. “It will result in undoing one thing. Sure, there may be some misuse, however there are real ones, additionally. If you happen to undo it, then it will be an issue,” the court docket stated.
5. The Supreme Court docket additionally expressed concern over violence happening over the Waqf (Modification) Act. “The one factor that could be very disturbing is the violence that’s happening. The difficulty is earlier than the court docket, and we will resolve,” the CJI stated.
6. The Supreme Court docket stated it will proceed its listening to on Thursday on a batch of petitions difficult the validity of the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025.
7. The Centre lately notified the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, which obtained the assent of President Droupadi Murmu on April 5 after its passage from Parliament following heated debates in each homes.
8. The invoice was handed in the Rajya Sabha with 128 members voting in favour and 95 opposing it. It was cleared by the Lok Sabha with 288 members supporting it and 232 in opposition to it.
9. As many as 72 petitions, together with these by AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, All India Muslim Private Legislation Board (AIMPLB), Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and Congress MPs Imran Pratapgarhi and Mohammad Jawed, have been filed difficult the validity of the Act.
10. The Centre, on April 8, filed a caveat in the apex court docket and sought a listening to earlier than any order was handed in the matter. A caveat was filed by a celebration in the excessive courts and the apex court docket to make sure that no orders are handed with out listening to it.