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Supreme Court:<\/span> The Division Bench of CJI BR Gavai and AG Masih, J. reserved the judgment on the plea seeking stay on the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, after hearing lengthy submissions for three days.<\/p>\n

On 05-04-2025, the President gave assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 to amend the Waqf Act, 1995.<\/p>\n

For a detailed report on the Amendment Act, refer to: Waqf (Amendment) Bill receives President’s assent; Waqf Act, 1995 will now be known as UMEED Act, 1995.<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span> Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justice BR Gavai, CJI remarked that the requirement of registration of Waqfs has been there under the previous laws of 1923 and 1954.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67517,"featured_media":348600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[44635,5363,81503,54044],"class_list":["post-348597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-sc","tag-supreme-court","tag-waqf-amendment-act","tag-waqf-property"],"yoast_head":"\nSupreme Court reserves verdict on stay of Waqf Amendment Act<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court reserves verdict on plea seeking stay of Waqf Amendment Act | SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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