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Supreme Court<\/span>: The Division Bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar, J. refused to entertain any further pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the Bench allowed the petitioners to raise any additional grounds of challenge as interveners in the main case listed in the next week.<\/p>\n

The Bench suggested that an impleadment application be filed.<\/p>\n

The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was passed in Lok Sabha on 03-04-2025 and was tabled in Lok Sabha on 02-04-2025 by Minister of Minority Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, proposing revision of several clauses in the existing Waqf Act, 1995<\/a>, which governs the administration of waqf properties in India. On 05-04-2025, the President gave assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 to amend the Waqf Act, 1995<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a detailed report on the Act, head to: Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 | SCC Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Court granted liberty to the petitioners to withdraw the pleas and raise additional grounds as impleaders\/intervenors in the ongoing hearing of the main case listed next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67517,"featured_media":346735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[75779,81502,44635,5363,81503,33660],"class_list":["post-346730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-cji-sanjiv-khanna","tag-plea-challenging-waqf","tag-sc","tag-supreme-court","tag-waqf-amendment-act","tag-waqf-properties"],"yoast_head":"\nSC refuses to entertain fresh pleas challenging Waqf (Amendment) Act | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SC refuses to entertain fresh pleas challenging Waqf (Amendment) Act, allows intervening 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