Supreme Court Stays Key Provisions of Waqf Amendment Act, 2025

The Supreme Court has stayed parts of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, while hearing petitions challenging its validity.

A bench of CJI B.R. Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih held that some provisions were prima facie arbitrary.

The Court stayed Section 3 (1) (r), which requires five years of being a “practising Muslim” to dedicate property as waqf, until state rules define the term. 

It also stayed provisions giving collectors power to adjudicate rights and restrictions on non-Muslim representation in waqf boards and councils. 

The Court had reserved the order on May 22 after hearing the parties over three days.