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ITEM NO.39 COURT NO.1 SECTION PIL-W S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Writ Petition (Civil) No. 269/2025 ASADUDDIN OWAISI Petitioner(s)
VERSUS UNION OF INDIA Respondent(s)
FOR ADMISSION IA No. 90396/2025 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS IA No. 90399/2025 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.
IA No. 90397/2025 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION IA No. 89994/2025 - INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT IA No. 90398/2025 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON IA No. 86885/2025 - PERMISSION TO FILE SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF DATES IA No. 86879/2025 - STAY APPLICATION WITH W.P.(C) No. 283/2025 (X)
W.P.(C) No. 286/2025 (PIL-W)
FOR ADMISSION W.P.(C) No. 276/2025 (X)
IA No. 88593/2025 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION IA No. 90429/2025 - STAY APPLICATION W.P.(C) No. 280/2025 (PIL-W)
IA No. 89571/2025 - STAY APPLICATION W.P.(C) No. 278/2025 (X)
FOR ADMISSION W.P.(C) No. 279/2025 (X)
FOR ADMISSION W.P.(C) No. 290/2025 (X) W.P.(C) No. 284/2025 (X)
FOR ADMISSION SignaWture. NoPt Ve.rifi(edC) No. 289/2025 (PIL-W)
Digitally signed by babita pandey Date: 2025.04.17
19:29:D30 aISTte : 17-04-2025 These matters were called on for hearing today.
Reason:
CORAM :
HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.V. VISWANATHAN For Petitioner(s) Mr. Pradeep Kumar Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Gopal Singh, Adv.
Ms. Anjale Kumari, Adv.
Mr. Ashwani Garg, Adv.
Mr. Tota Ram, Adv.
Mr. P Murugesan, Adv.
Mr. Sunil Kumar Srivastava, Adv.
Ms. Shweta Suman, Adv.
Mr. Ahmad Khan, Adv.
Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra, AOR Mr. Zulfiker Ali P. S, AOR Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR Ms. Rupali Samuel, Adv.
Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv.
Mr. Mustafa Khaddam Hussain, Adv.
Ms. Akanksha Rai, Adv.
Mr. Mujahid Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Shahid Nadeem, Adv.
Ms. Gurneet Kaur, Adv.
Mr. Hasan Raza Khan, Adv.
Mr. Chander Uday Singh, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Rajiv Shakdher, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Adeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Adv.
Mr. Junaid Ansari, Adv.
Mr. Raja Chatterjee, Adv.
Ms. Taqdees Fatima, Adv.
Ms. Katyayani, Adv.
Mr. Piyush Sachdev, Adv.
Mr. Arshad Ayyub, Adv.
Mr. Mohd Ghouse Muddin Khan, Adv.
Mr. Karan Khetani, Adv.
Mr. Abdur Razzaque Bhuyan, Adv.
Mr. Jonathan Ivan Rajan, Adv.
Mr. Jahangir Iqbal, Adv.
Ms. Maithli Moondra, Adv.
Mr. Mohd Danish, Adv. Mr. Nizam Pasha, Adv.
Mr. Lzafeer Ahmad B. F., AOR Ms. Awstika Das, Adv.
Mr. Mushtaq Salim, Adv. Mr. Madhav Deepak, Adv.
Mr. Sidharth Kaushik, Adv.
Mr. Shubham Arun, Adv.
Mr. Arif Ali, Adv.
Mr. Sachin Dubey, Adv. Ms. Fauzia Shakil, AOR Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv.
Mr. Rahul Tomar, Adv.
Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Adv.
Mr. M R Shamshad, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Amit Bhandari, Adv.
Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. Arijit Sarkar, Adv.
Mr. M Shaz Khan, Adv.
Mr. Faizan Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Rafid Akhter, Adv.
Mr. Sudhanshu Tewari, Adv. Ms. Priyansha Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Sarwar Raza, Adv.
Mr. M. R. Shamshad, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Wajeeh Shafiq, AOR Mr. Vishwajeet Kumar, Adv. Ms. Shaista Siddiqui, Adv.
Mr. Naman Jain, Adv. Ms. Zeb Hasaan, Adv.
Mr. Tariq Adeeb, Adv.
For Respondent(s) Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. K.M. Nataraj, A.S.G.
Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, A.S.G.
Mr. S.D. Sanjay, A.S.G.
Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G.
Mr. Raghavendra P.shankar, Adv.
Mr. K. Parmeshwaran, Adv.
Mr. Anil Kaushik, Adv.
Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, Adv.
Mr. Karan Lahiri, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Aastha Singh, Adv.
Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv.
Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Prafulla Kumar Bharat, Advocate General Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Yeshwant Kulkarni, AOR Mr. Shridhar Pottraju, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Pratima Nain Lakra, AOR Ms. Mahima Pandey, Adv.
Mr. Vikas Lakra, Adv.
Mr. Chandan Prajapati, Adv.
Mr. Aditya Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Shreeyas U Lalit, Adv.
Mr. Aakash Dixit, Adv.
Mr. Pallav Mongia, Adv.
Mr. Devesh Mohan, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar, Adv. Mr. Chand Qureshi, AOR Mr. Mohit Yadav, Adv.
Dr. P.B. Reddy, Adv.
Ms. Patnam Shyla, Adv.
Ms. C.S. Hema, Adv.
Ms. Snehasree Lakkamaneni, Adv.
Ms. Arpana Soni, Adv.
Ms. Preeti Chauhan, Adv.
Mr. Barun Kumar Sinha, Adv.
Mrs. Pratibha Sinha, Adv.
Mr. Sneh Vardan, Adv.
Mr. Siddant Thakur, Adv.
Mr. Bhuwan Raj, AOR Mrs. Manju Savita, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Sood, Adv.
Mr. Anubhav Mehrotra, Adv.
Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR Mr. Farook M. Razack, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Rizwan Merchant, Adv.
Mr. Faisal Farook, Adv.
Mr. Shubail Farook, Adv.
Mr. Kshitij Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Ranjay Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Chandrashekhar Singh, Adv.
Mr. Shashank Shekhar Singh, Adv.
Mr. Arjun D. Singh, Adv.
Mr. Gaichangpou Gangmei, Adv.
Mr. J. Prasad, Adv.
Mr. Yimyanger Longkumer, Adv.
Mr. Maitreya Mahaley, Adv.
Mr. Abhinav Singh, Adv.
M/s. A G Veritas Law, AOR Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR Mr. Siddhant Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Ajay Bahuguna, Adv.
Mr. Pitambar Acharya, Advocate General Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Samapika Biswal, AOR Ms. Soumya Sannidhanam, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G.
Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, AOR Mr. K. Parameshwar, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv.
Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.
Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv.
Mr. Abhikalp Pratap Singh, Adv.
Ms. Gayatri Agarwal, Adv.
Mr. Utkarsh Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv.
Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv.
Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Adv.
Mr. S. Guru Krishna Kumar, Sr. Adv.
Ms. C. Ankeeta Appanna, AOR Ms. Madhura Chitnis, Adv.
Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Subodh Pathak, Adv.
Mr. Amit Mishra, Adv.
Mr. Mitakshara Goyal, Adv.
Mr. Sudipto Sarkar, Adv.
Mr. Shriya Gilhotra, Adv.
Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Yashraj Bundela, Adv. Mr. Rahul G Tanwani, Adv.
Mr. Venkata Raghuvamsy D., AOR Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Sr. A.A.G.
Ms. Drishti Rawal, Adv.
Ms. Pragya Upadhyay, Adv.
Ms. Drishti Saraf, Adv.
Mr. Nikunj Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Aakanksha, Adv.
Ms. Ishika Gupta, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Arya, Adv.
Ms. Divya Jyoti Singh, AOR Mr. Sadashiv, AOR Mr. Pranav Kumar Srivastva, Adv.
Mr. Sachin Agarwal, Adv.
Mr. Prashant Andrew Leo, Adv.
Mr. Ashish Singh, Adv.
Mr. Ashish Pandey, Adv.
Mr. Devendra Kumar Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Vandana, Adv.
Mr. Nishant Sanjay Kumar Singh, Adv.
Ms. Pushpa Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Syed Shahid Hussain Rizvi, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv.
Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Anuj Chaudhary, Adv.
Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Prafulla Kumar Bharat, Advocate General Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Mr. Muhammad Ali Khan, AAG Mr. Omar Hod, Adv.
Ms. Eesha Bakshi, Adv.
Mr. Kamran Khan, Adv.
Mr. D.L. Chidananda, AOR UPON hearing the counsel, the Court made the following
O R D E R
During the course of the hearing, Mr. Tushar Mehta, the learned Solicitor General, stated that the respondents would like to file a reply/response within a period of seven days from today. He assures this Court that till the next date of hearing, no appointments would be made to the Central Waqf Council and the Waqf Boards in the States and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, under Sections 9 and 14 respectively of the principal Act, that is, the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995,1 as amended by the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. He further states that if the Government of any State or the National Capital Territory of Delhi makes any such appointment(s), the same may be declared void.
It is also stated that till the next date of hearing, no Waqf, including a Waqf by user, whether declared by way of notification or by way of registration, shall be de-notified, nor will their character or status be changed.
We take these statements on record.
Rejoinder affidavit to the reply/response of the respondents may be filed within a period of five days from the date of its service.
It is agreed by the learned counsel for the petitioners that the following five writ petitions may be treated as lead cases:
For short, “1995 Waqf Act”.
S. No.
Case No.
Cause Title
1.
W.P.(C) No. 276/2025
Arshad Madani v. Union of India
2.
W.P.(C) No. 314/2025
Muhammad Jameel Merchant v. Union of India
The other writ petitions/matters will be treated as intervention/impleadment applications filed in the aforesaid writ petitions.
3.
W.P.(C) No. 284/2025
Mohammed Fazlurrahim & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.
4.
W.P.(C) No. 331/2025
Sheikh Noorul Hassan v. The Union of India & Ors.
5.
W.P.(C) No. 269/2025
Asaduddin Owaisi v. Union of India
The writ petitions challenging the 1995 Waqf Act and the amendments made therein in 2013 including W.P.(C) No. 353/2025 “Hari Shankar Jain and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.” and W.P.(C) Diary No. 19103/2025 titled “Parul Khera v. Union of India and Ors.”, shall be separately shown in the cause list.
As a special case, liberty is granted to the petitioners, who have filed writ petitions challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, to file their response to the said writ petitions.
The Union of India, the State Governments and the Waqf Boards may file preliminary reply/response to these writ petitions within a period of seven days from today.
Rejoinder affidavit(s), if any, may be filed within five days after service of the preliminary reply/response.
Both sides, that is, the petitioners and the respondents, have appointed Nodal Counsel for effecting service and for filing of documents. The names and details of the Nodal Counsel are as under:
We clarify that the hearing fixed on the next date will be a preliminary hearing and, if required, interim orders will be passed.
S.No.
Name
Email address
Side representing
1.
Mr. Ejaz Maqbool
emaqbool@gmail.com
Petitioners
2.
Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain
advt.vishnujain@gmail.com
Applicants
3.
Mr. Kanu Agarwal
kanu@pramatipartners.com
Respondents
The cause titles of the five writ petitions will read as follows:
S. No.
Case No.
Cause Title
1.
W.P.(C) No. 276/2025
In Re: The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 (1)
2.
W.P.(C) No. 314/2025
In Re: The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 (2)
3.
W.P.(C) No. 284/2025
In Re: The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 (3)
4.
W.P.(C) No. 331/2025
In Re: The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 (4)
5.
W.P.(C) No. 269/2025
In Re: The Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 (5)
Re-list on 05.05.2025 at 02.00 p.m.
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