ORDER

Altamas Kabir, J.-These several Special Leave Petitions have been filed by the State of Maharashtra and other parties. While Special Leave Petition (C) Nos.31288- 31290, Special Leave Petition (C) Nos.32129-32131 and Special Leave Petition (C) No.32636, all of 2011, have been fled by the Maharashtra State Board of Wakfs, Special Leave Petition (C) Nos.35196 and 35198 of 2011 have been filed by the Jamait Educational and Welfare Muslim Minority Education Society and Maharashtra Muslim Lawyers’ Forum.

2. The Special Leave Petitions are directed against the judgment and final order dated 21st September, 2011, passed by the Bombay High Court in Writ Petition No.2906 of 2004, Writ Petition No.357 of 2011 and Writ Petition (L) No.899 of 2011. The impugned judgment of the High Court in the aforesaid Writ Petitions is the outcome of the challenge to the formation of the Maharashtra State Board of Wakfs. As noticed by the High Court, the subject matter of all the Writ Petitions, and thereby of the Special Leave Petitions, relates to the challenge to the incorporation of the Maharashtra State Board of Wakfs and its impact upon the Wakfs created by persons professing Islam, but belong