SC to hear today bunch of pleas against provisions of ’95 waqf Act | India News

NEW DELHI: As Supreme Court readies to hear on Wednesday a bunch of petitions difficult Waqf Amendment Act, a petition by advocate Hari Shankar Jain sought scrapping of a number of provisions of waqf Act, 1995 and up to date amendments alleging their use as instruments by waqfs to illegally amass immoveable properties throughout India, studies Dhananjay Mahapatra.
In his petition, Jain, who’s within the forefront of litigation for restoration of Gyanvapi mosque at Varanasi and Idgah at Mathura to Kashi Vishwanath temple and Krishna Janmasthan temple, challenged as many as six part of the waqf Act alleging that as a result of of these provisions “Muslims have been able to illegally capture the properties belonging to public utilities, govt, gram samajs and Hindu temples.”
For the petitioner, advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain repeatedly pleaded earlier than a bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar for listening to the petition together with these filed by AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, AAP functionary Amanatullah Khan, NGO ‘Association for the Protection of Civil Rights’, Darul Uloom principal Arshad Madani, Islamic non secular physique ‘Samastha Kerala Jamiathul Ulema’, Anjum Kadari, advocate Taiyyab Khan Salmani, SDPI’s Mohd Shafi, All India Muslim Personal Law Board basic secretary Mohd Fazlurrahim and RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha.
Petitions had been additionally filed by DMK MP A Raja, who was half of the joint parliamentary committee on waqf invoice, and CPI, however these weren’t listed together with the opposite bunch of petitions. TVK president Vijay, Congress MP Mohammed Jawed and Jamaat-e-Islami too have moved SC against the Act.
A key objection to the adjustments carried out by Parliament to waqf Act was that these discriminated against Muslims purely on non secular grounds and makes an attempt to oust them from meaningfully administering waqf properties, which is a creation of their religion.