Pleas Challenging Waqf Act Mentioned in SC for Urgent Listing

The bench asked why oral mentioning is being made when there is a system in place to seek urgent listing.

- AGENCIES NEW DELHI

The petitions filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 were mentioned before the Supreme Court on Monday. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna denied oral mentioning.

The bench asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who was mentioning the matter, why the oral mentioning is being made when there is a system in place to seek urgent listing by sending an email and asked him to move a mentioning letter.

When Sibal said that the letter had already been emailed, CJI said that he would do the needful after examining it this afternoon.

"Why are you mentioning when we have a system in place? Send a letter of urgency and that will be placed before me. I will do the needful. All these requests are placed before me every afternoon," said the CJI.

Several petitions were filed in the apex court challenging the Act contending that it was discriminatory towards the Muslim community and violates their fundamental rights.