WAQF RIOTS WERE 'ENGINEERED' SAYS MAMATA IN DIRECT ATTACK ON CENTRE

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday cited Union home minister Amit Shah's control of federal agencies and attacked him and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the communal riots in West Bengal's Murshidabad district during protests against the new law for regulating and managing Waqf or Islamic charitable endowments.

- Tanmay Chatterjee

Press Trust of India [e-mail] NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday proposed to order that the properties declared as waqf including "waqf by user" won't be de-notified but the Centre opposed the suggestion and sought a hearing before such a directive.

The top court also asked the Centre if Muslims would be allowed to be part of Hindu religious trusts.

"The properties declared by courts as waqfs should not be de-notified as waqfs, whether they are by waqf-by-user or waqf by deed, while the court is hearing the challenge to the Waqf Amendment Act 2025," the bench said.