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The Supreme Court connected Monday (December 1, 2025) refused to intervene successful a batch of petitions seeking extension of clip for the mandatory uploading of registered waqf properties, including ‘waqf by user’, with the UMEED portal.
A Bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih gave petitioners liberty to attack the waqf tribunal concerned.
The Centre had launched the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development (UMEED) portal on June 6 to make a integer inventory aft geo-tagging each waqf properties. According to the mandate of the UMEED portal, details of each registered waqf properties crossed India are to beryllium mandatorily uploaded wrong six months.
The petitioners argued that the portal was faulty and was not signaling details erstwhile uploaded. They said the deadline was coming to a adjacent connected December 6, and determination would beryllium a immense nonaccomplishment of spot unless the Supreme Court intervened.
The Bench said it cannot re-write Section 3B(1) of the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995 by extending the clip of uploading the details of waqfs by different six months.
Senior advocator Kapil Sibal sought liberty to record an exertion successful aboriginal successful the Supreme Court if the process ran into a hiccup again. Justice Datta remarked that they were escaped to determination the Supreme Court if they ran into a problem.
In September, the Court had refused to enactment the Waqf (Amendment) Act of 2025 successful its entirety.
The September judgment, however, did not prima facie favour the petitioners’ arguments against the mandatory registration of waqfs.
“Right from 1923, successful each the waqf enactments we person referred to, determination was a request of registration of waqfs. We are, therefore, of the presumption that if Mutawallis for a play of 102 years could not get the waqf registered, arsenic required nether the earlier provisions, they cannot assertion that they beryllium allowed to proceed with the waqf adjacent if they are not registered,” the Supreme Court had observed.
