The Supreme Court will hear today a batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025.
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Viswanathan will hear the petitions at 2 PM. Over seventy petitions have been listed before the bench.
AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi, Congress MP Md Jawed, RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha, TMC MP Mahua Moitra, All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party, Indian Union Muslim League, YSRC Party, Samastha Kerala Jamiatul Ulema, Delhi MLA Amanatullah Khan, SP MP Zia Ur Rehman, Imam of Jama Masjid Bengaluru, Communist Party of India, TVK President & Tamil actor Vijay, Association for Protection of Civil Rights etc., are some of the petitioners.
The States of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Assam, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh have filed intervention applications supporting the Act. The Central Government has also filed a caveat.
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