AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said on Monday that the Supreme Court has only issued an interim order on the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. He expressed his hope that the court will soon deliver its final verdict on the legislation as a whole.
"The finality of the act has not been decided. It's only an interim order. Let us hope they quickly decide the whole issue of the act itself," he told reporters.
The Supreme Court had earlier on Monday put on hold a few key provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. This included a clause that required individuals to have practised Islam for the previous five years to be able to create a Waqf. The court, however, refused to stay the entire law, outlining the presumption of constitutionality in its favour.
"Presumption is always in favour of the constitutionality of a statute, and intervention [can be done] only in the rarest of rare cases," a bench led by Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih said in its 128-page interim order on the contentious issue.
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