8 months ago
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Top tribunal ruling
By pausing immoderate cardinal aspects of the contentious amendments to the Waqf Act, the Supreme Court of India has sent a wide and unequivocal connection to the ruling dispensation astatine the Centre astir the imperative request to wage scrupulous attraction to owed process, peculiarly successful subjects that pertain to the spiritual practices of minorities (Front page, September 16).
Though laws enacted by Parliament transportation a presumption of law validity, the onus lies connected the portion of the enforcement to guarantee it does not interruption law principles, cardinal rights, and is not arbitrary successful nature.
M. Jeyaram,
Sholavandan, Tamil Nadu
The Supreme Court took the mediate crushed connected September 15. Judicial pragmatism is evident successful this well-balanced order. Instead of straight challenging Parliament, the Court expressed enactment for betterment portion being considerate to the concerns of minorities. By doing this, it has aimed to support a tenable level of restitution for the assemblage and the government.
The connection is clear: ratio and accountability successful waqf absorption are desirable, but not astatine the disbursal of arbitrariness oregon law rights.
Amir Tyagi Qasmi,
Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh
The Waqf Act, presented arsenic governance reform, is fraught with provisions that deepen disempowerment and impoverishment alternatively than beforehand justice. Its astir contentious clauses — already stayed by the Supreme Court — necessitate trustees to beryllium they are practising Muslims and restrict medication bodies to Muslims alone. The proviso demanding impervious of signifier is peculiarly absurd, reducing religion and spiritual spot to bureaucratic certification. Meanwhile, the Act’s alleged “inclusivity” is itself discriminatory: it thrusts non-Muslims into waqf management, adjacent though nary equivalent laws govern non-Muslim endowments, signalling an arbitrary intrusion into assemblage autonomy. The enactment connected the District Collector’s powers is simply a invited cheque connected administrative overreach, but the broader judicial enactment underscores the Act’s structural flaws. Left uncorrected, these measures marginalise progressive voices, ore authority, and endanger the charitable imaginable of waqf assets. The Court indispensable yet onslaught down these provisions and reconsider the Act successful afloat successful sync with the fashionable expectations of the assemblage astatine large.
M. Jameel Ahmed,
Mysuru
September 14 match
Sport has ceased to beryllium apolitical a agelong clip ago. Our players not shaking hands with their Pakistani counterparts, aft having played against them, was not cricket. Such an ‘ungentlemanly spectacle’ should person been avoided. If Pahalgam continues to beryllium a sore point, India should not person played Pakistan. It is not a astonishment that sportspersons person go ‘helpless consenting pawns’ successful the hands of politicians.
C.G. Kuriakose,
Kothamangalam, Kerala
“It is not cricket” is simply a operation utilized to picture thing that seems unfair, ungentlemanly oregon unsportsmanlike. A erstwhile Indian cricket captain, successful his autobiography, wrote that cricket is simply a hard crippled played with a hard bat and hard ball; but it is simply a crippled not war. All this seems to person been proven incorrect connected September 14 during the India-Pakistan match. Long unrecorded ‘the cricket’ we knew.
R. Raman,
Varanasi
