Decoding the Supreme Court’s interim order on Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025

In Focus by The Hindu · Sep 19, 2025 · 38m

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of India stayed certain provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. Among the provisions stayed are the one requiring a person intending to create a Waqf, to prove that he had been practising Islam for five years. It also paused the provision granting District Collectors the power to determine the status of a disputed waqf property, and capped the non-Muslim representation in Waqf boards. At the same time, it has upheld the deletion of waqf-by-users, another contentious issue flagged by the petitioners. But this is only an interim order, and the case…