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The Maharashtra State Waqf Tribunal, which is based successful Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, has granted a six-month hold for uploading of Waqf spot information connected the UMEED portal.
The UMEED (Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency, and Development) portal is the Centre’s strategy for integer absorption of Waqf properties, which are imperishable endowments of movable oregon immovable assets (like land, buildings, money) by a Muslim for religious, charitable, oregon pious purposes.
The Tribunal granted the alleviation connected Tuesday (December 24, 2025) connected an interim exertion by the Maharashtra State Board of Waqf, arsenic the deadline for registration expired connected December 5. The Board told the Tribunal that contempt repeated communications done emails and WhatsApp to the UMEED portal enactment team, respective method issues remained unresolved.
According to the Board, determination are astir 36,000 registered Waqf institutions successful Maharashtra. The Board stated that portion it submitted details of each 36,000 institutions, retired of astir 75,000 Waqf properties, lone 50,000 properties could beryllium uploaded connected the portal.
The Tribunal, comprising District Judge and Chairman Adil Khan and Member Mohd Mohiuddin Moied, granted a six-month hold to the Board and ordered that the alleviation volition commence lone from the day the UMEED portal is “made afloat functional, operating 24/7 without immoderate method glitches, for the Waqf Board and each Waqf institutions”.
It besides directed assorted cardinal officials to guarantee that each method defects and “shortcomings of the UMEED portal” are rectified wrong 10 days. The portal should beryllium made operational lone aft implicit rectification of defects and indispensable relation continuously without glitches.
Further, the Tribunal restrained the authorities from taking immoderate adverse enactment against “mutawallis (trustees) of Waqf institutions” nether the provisions of the UMEED Act during this period. It besides ordered that if defects are not rectified, further clip indispensable beryllium granted to compensate for the play during which the portal remained non-functional oregon defective.
The Federation of Maharashtra Muslims welcomed the verdict. Its office-bearers Shaikh Mujeeb urged mutawallis crossed the authorities to instrumentality vantage of the extended clip play and implicit the uploading of Waqf spot details erstwhile the portal becomes afloat functional.
