After the passage of the new Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, many people challenged it and with the Supreme Court banning some of its important provisions, this legal battle has taken an interesting turn.
Here, from the implementation of the law to the latest decisions of the Supreme Court, the incidents have been given in order, which includes a ban on the provision that makes it compulsory to make only five years to those who follow Islam for five years.
*April 3: Lok Sabha passed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
*April 4: Rajya Sabha passed the bill.
*April 5: President Draupadi Murmu approves the bill. AAP leader Amanatullah Khan turned to the Supreme Court against the bill. Many others also moved the Supreme Court.
*April: Asaduddin Owaisi, Mohammad Javed, AIMPLB and others also moved the Supreme Court.
*17 April: The Supreme Court heard the petitions and named them ‘in relation to the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025’. After the government was assured that in the meantime the ‘Waqf’ by the user or ‘Waqf’ properties by the document, the bench directed the Center to present its case.
*April 25: The Center demanded dismissal of the petitions and said that the law cannot be “complete ban”.
*29 April: The Supreme Court refused to consider new petitions against the law.
*May 5: The then Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna said that the hearing of the case was his successor Justice B.K. R. Gawai will do on 15 May.
*May 15: Chief Justice Gawai sets a date for hearing on the issue of interim relief on 20 May.
*20-22 May: The Supreme Court hears the petitions and reserves the verdict.
*September 15: A bench led by Chief Justice Gawai passed an interim order.
However, prohibiting major provisions, the apex court refused to completely ban the law, saying that there is a “estimate of constitutionality” in its favor.
