AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, along with Congress MP Mohammed Jawed, has moved the Supreme Court to challenge the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which has now been cleared by Parliament. As per their claims, the Bill violates the provisions given to the Muslim community in the Constitution.
The new Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was passed in Rajya Sabha on Thursday after a 14 hour long debate, with 128 members voting in favor and 95 opposing it. Before that, it was cleared by the Lok Sabha, with 288 members supporting it and 232 against it.
What their petitions says
According to Live law, Owaisi has argued in his petition that the provisions in the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, “blatantly infringe upon the fundamental rights of Muslims and the Muslim community.”
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On the other hand Congress MP Mohammed Jawed, in his plea has argued that the Bill imposes “arbitrary restrictions” on Waqf properties and their management, undermining the religious autonomy of the Muslim community. While his lawyer, Anas Tanwir, who filed his petition, said, the Bill was biased against the Muslim community by “enforcing restrictions that are not applied to the governance of other religious endowments.”
Jairam Ramesh announces that Congress will go to Supreme court against Waqf Bill
Earlier on Friday, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh had also announced that his party will go to the Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of the Waqf Bill.
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He also referenced a series of laws that the Congress has contested in court. Some of these acts in his list, he said, were being heard in the Supreme Court. These include the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, or CAA, the 2019 amendments to the Right to Information Act, 2005, the validity of the amendments to the Conduct of Election Rules (2024), and intervention to uphold the letter and spirit of the Places of Worship Act, 1991.
