Waqf Amendment Act: One petition dismissed, immediately another came, CJI Gawai said- everyone gets his name ..

The Supreme Court, refusing to investigate two new petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, said on Friday (May 16, 2025), everyone wants to see their name in newspapers. A bench of Chief Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai and Justice Augustine George Christ said that it would decide on the pending topic for hearing on May 20. After this, the Supreme Court will hear the subject of interim relief in the case. One of these petitions came for hearing on Friday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared in the court on behalf of the Center, said that petitions challenging the Act cannot be filed till eternity. The lawyer appearing on behalf of the petitioner said that he had filed a petition on April 8 and had removed the flaws mentioned by the Supreme Court Registry on April 15, but his petition was not listed for hearing. The Chief Justice said, “Everyone wants his name to come in newspapers.” When the lawyer urged the bench that their petitions were attached to the pending petitions, the bench said, ‘We will decide on this subject.’ After this, the bench rejected it. When another similar petition came for hearing, the bench said, ‘It is dismissed.’ When the petitioner’s counsel urged him to intervene in the pending petitions, the Chief Justice said, “We already have a lot of interventionist.” On April 17, the Supreme Court decided to hear only five of the total petitions. The petitions challenging the Act came on 15 May before the bench of Chief Justice Gawai and Justice Justice Christ. The bench said that on May 20, it would hear arguments to pass interim instructions on three issues, including non -notification of the assets declared by the courts. The petitioners raised a second issue that the state belongs to the structure of the Waqf Board and the Central Waqf Parishad, which they argue that only Muslims should work for it except ex -officio members. The third issue is related to the provision, according to which when the District Magistrate will investigate to find out whether the property is government or not, the Waqf property will not be considered as Waqf. The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs filed an initial affidavit of 1,332 pages on 25 April, defending the amended Waqf Act, 2025 and opposed any ban by the court on the law made by Parliament. Also read:- ’43 Rohingyas left the sea’, SC asked on the lawyer’s argument- where do these stories bring these stories, your clients from satellite …

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