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The Supreme Court connected Monday (November 3, 2025) agreed to database again for proceeding a plea of AIMIM person Asaduddin Owaisi seeking hold of clip for the mandatory registration of each Waqf properties, including 'Waqf by user', nether the UMEED portal.
The seat earlier listed the plea of the AIMIM person and others connected the contented for information connected October 28. However, it could not beryllium taken up for the hearing.
On Monday (November 3), lawyer Nizam Pasha, appearing for Mr. Owaisi, urged a seat comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran to perceive the substance urgently arsenic it could not beryllium heard connected the earlier date.
"We volition springiness a date," the CJI said.
Earlier, the lawyer 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 clasp 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 newly-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.
Pasha antecedently urged the tribunal to perceive a miscellaneous exertion seeking an hold of clip for registration of Waqf properties.
He said six months' clip was fixed successful the amended instrumentality for the registration of the waqf properties and "five months went during the judgement, we present lone person 1 period left".
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.
