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The Supreme Court connected Friday (November 28, 2025) agreed to perceive connected December 1 assorted pleas, including the 1 filed by All India Muslim Personal Law Board, seeking hold of clip for the mandatory registration of each waqf properties, including ‘waqf by user’, nether the UMEED portal.
A Bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih took enactment of the submissions of lawyer Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, appearing for 1 of the petitioners, that the pleas needed to beryllium listed for proceeding urgently.
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“List these applications on with I.A. No…on December 01, 2025,” the Bench said.
Besides All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), AIMIM person Asaduddin Owaisi and assorted others moved the apical court, seeking hold of clip for mandatory registration of each waqf properties.
Earlier, a lawyer had said the six-month play for the mandatory registration of waqf was nearing its end.
In an interim bid connected September 15, the apical tribunal enactment connected hold a fewer cardinal provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, including a clause that lone those practising Islam for the past 5 years could make waqf, but refused to enactment the full law, outlining the presumption of constitutionality successful its favour.
It besides held the Centre’s bid to delete the ‘waqf by user’ proviso successful the recently amended instrumentality was prima facie not arbitrary and the statement that waqf lands would beryllium grabbed by governments held “no water”.
‘Waqf by user’ refers to a signifier wherever a spot is recognised arsenic a spiritual oregon charitable endowment (waqf) based connected its uninterrupted semipermanent usage for specified purposes, adjacent if determination isn’t a formal, written declaration of Waqf by the owner.
The Centre launched the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development (UMEED) Act cardinal portal connected 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.
