SC to listen to on Oct 28 pleas in search of extension of time for registration of waqf properties

New Delhi: The Supreme Court docket has listed for October 28 listening to on a plea of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi in search of extension of time for necessary registration of all waqf properties, together with waqf-by-users below the UMEED portal.

A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice Ok Vinod Chandran was urged by lawyer Nizam Pasha that the plea wanted pressing itemizing because the six months necessary time interval was nearing the top.

On Tuesday, one other related plea was talked about for pressing listening to together with Owasi's plea on October 28.
The bench stated it could take into account itemizing the recent one as properly.

In an interim order, the highest court docket had on September 15 placed on maintain a number of key provisions of the Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, together with a clause that solely these practising Islam for the final 5 years may create waqf, however refused to remain your entire legislation outlining the presumption of constitutionality in its favour.

It additionally held the Centre's order to delete the “waqf by person” provision within the newly-amended waqf legislation was prima facie not arbitrary and the argument that waqf lands could be grabbed by governments held “no water”. Waqf by person refers to a follow the place a property is recognised as a non secular or charitable endowment (waqf) primarily based on its long-term, uninterrupted use for such functions, even when there is not a proper, written declaration of waqf by the proprietor. Earlier on October 9, Pasha, showing for Owaisi, had stated {that a} miscellaneous software in search of extension of time for registration of waqf properties be heard.

He stated that six months time was given within the amended legislation for registration of the waqf properties and “5 months went throughout the judgement, we now solely have one month left.”

The Centre had on June 6 launched the Unified Waqf Administration, Empowerment, Effectivity and Improvement Act, 1995 (UMEED) central portal to create a digital stock after geo-tagging all waqf properties.

In response to the mandate of the UMEED portal, particulars of all registered Waqf properties throughout India are to be mandatorily uploaded inside six months.