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The Supreme Court connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) agreed to database an exertion filed by AIMIM main Asaduddin Owaisi seeking a six-month hold for the registration of waqfs crossed the state connected the UMEED portal.
”Under the recently inserted Section 3B(1), each waqf registered anterior to the 2025 Waqf Amendment Act is required to record the details of the waqf and the spot dedicated to the waqf connected the portal and database wrong six months. A six-month timeline is besides prescribed nether Section 36(1) work with Section 36(10) of the 1995 Waqf Act,” the exertion said.
A recently inserted provision, Section 36(10), inserted into the 1995 Act done the 2025 Amendment instrumentality stipulates that “no suit, appeal, oregon different ineligible proceeding to enforce rights connected behalf of an unregistered waqf shall beryllium instituted oregon commenced, nor shall immoderate specified proceeding beryllium heard, tried, oregon adjudicated by immoderate court.” This translates to a broad barroom connected ineligible alleviation for waqfs which did not registry connected the portal successful time.
”This play of six months is acceptable to lapse connected October 8, 2025, aft which unregistered waqfs, irrespective of their long-standing beingness and designation arsenic waqfs, would beryllium rendered wholly remediless. Thereby consigning the destiny of specified unregistered waqfs to sedate uncertainty and uncanalised judicial discretion,” the application, represented by advocates Nizam Pasha and Lzafeer Ahmad said.
The exertion said that 5 of the six months had elapsed betwixt the preservation of judgement by the Supreme Court connected plea to enactment the 2025 Act to the pronouncement of the judgement connected September 15. The Supreme Court, successful its judgement connected September, had struck a equilibrium by staying important portions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act of 2025 which it recovered “prima facie arbitrary” while refusing to frost the instrumentality successful its entirety.
”The judgment, portion dealing with different aspects of interim relief, did not code the imminent expiry of the statutory deadline nether Section 36(10). Through the contiguous application, the applicant seeks to bring this to the announcement of this tribunal truthful that suitable alleviation is granted to forestall waqfs crossed the state from uncovering themselves deprived of the extortion and remedies nether the Waqf Act without being afforded an effectual oregon meaningful accidental to unafraid registration. It is this imminent hazard of irretrievable prejudice, to which each unregistered waqf crossed the state present stands exposed,” the exertion said.
