Supreme Court to Hear Pleas on Waqf Property Registration Timeline Extension

The Supreme Court will hear pleas from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and others on December 1, seeking an extension for mandatory registration of all waqf properties. The petitions argue for more time to comply with the six-month registration requirement under the UMEED portal.

The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for December 1 to address various petitions, including one from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, urging an extension for the compulsory registration of waqf properties under the UMEED portal.

A bench, comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih, acknowledged the urgency expressed by petitioner lawyer Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi. The court will hear the matter alongside related applications on the scheduled date.

The petitions come as the six-month registration deadline approaches, amid an interim order suspending certain clauses of the recent waqf act amendment but affirming the law's overall constitutionality. The Centre's move to digitize waqf properties aims for efficient management, despite ongoing debates on its impact.

(With inputs from agencies.)