Chief Justice Khanna defers Waqf pleas for successor Justice Gavai

Waqf Amendment Act-2025 will Fail Constitution! - Clarion India

Haider Abbas THE Waqf Amendment Act-2025, passed by the Parliament, owing to the betrayal of Nitish Kumar and Chandra Babu Naidu to ‘secularism’, has been subjected to an interim stay, by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna. There were around 100 petitions tagged to the matter, which was taken by Supreme Court on May 5, and is now to be listed on May 15. The Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi did not speak a word during the debate in Parliament.…

Waqf Act Case Postponed Again: Is Justice Being Delayed?

By Shaikh Saleem MUMBAI: On 5 May, Muslims across India looked to the Supreme Court with hope and anticipation. The community had expected that the country’s highest judicial institution would either deliver a decisive ruling or at least provide interim relief regarding the petitions challenging the controversial Waqf Act 2025. But again, disappointment followed. Instead […]

Amendments to the Waqf Law were needed, but the grab-and-control Waqf Amendment Act, 2025 is not the answer

In a menacingly bipolar polity and society, an era of easy-labelling and stereotyping, presenting the truth and holding a mirror before two extreme poles is both a complicated and difficult task. Accusations and counter-accusations of opportunism against independent-minded interventions on a contentious issue come fast and often, in haste. Thus, commenting upon a deeply flawed, ill-intended and partisan law such as the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025 b…

Chief Justice Khanna defers Waqf pleas for successor Justice Gavai

The Supreme Court has postponed the decision on a series of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, until May 15, to allow incoming Chief Justice, Justice B R Gavai, to decide. The current CJI, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who is retiring on May 13, expressed reluctance to pass judgment or an interim order due to certain aspects of the law needing clarification. The court stated that the batch of petitions agains…