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The Supreme Court connected Friday (December 12, 2025) stayed a Kerala High Court bid which struck down the registration of the contentious Munambam holding arsenic a Waqf property, and ordered presumption quo implicit the disputed property.
A Bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Ujjal Bhuyan clarified that it has not stayed the absorption of the High Court upholding the authorities bid appointing an enquiry committee to ascertain ownership of the disputed area.
The bid was passed successful a petition filed by Kerala Waqf Samrakshana Vedhi challenging the High Court order.
The apex tribunal issued a announcement to the Kerala authorities and sought its effect connected the plea filed by the Vedhi challenging the October 10 bid of the High Court connected the 404-acre spot successful Munambam.
The organisation has contended that the bid of the Division Bench violated the doctrine of statutory finality by rendering its findings connected the validity of the Waqf declaration, a substance that was wrong the exclusive jurisdiction of the Waqf Tribunal.
The Vedhi has contended that the Division Bench transgressed its jurisdiction and passed a declaration connected the property, which is simply a registered waqf, successful a writ petition aft bypassing the statutory procedures, particularly erstwhile the contented was pending earlier the Waqf Tribunal.
Moreover, it argued, the contented whether the Munambam spot was a waqf oregon not was not adjacent the taxable substance of the proceedings.
The State authorities had appointed a committee headed by erstwhile acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, Justice C.N. Ramachandran Nair, successful November past twelvemonth to ascertain onshore ownership successful the disputed area.
