Hindu body moves Supreme Court against Waqf Amendment Act; says law threatens existence of Muslims

Kerala based Hindu organisation, Sree Narayana Manava Dharmam Trust, has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, arguing that the law threatens the very existence of the Muslim community in India..The trust, established in 2023 to study and dissemination of the values and teachings of the sage and philosopher Sree Narayana Guru, has sought to intervene in the batch of petitions challenging the provisions of the amended Waqf law."Given the teaching of Sree Narayana Guru about the inter-dependent nature of the well-being of all persons and communities, the ‘Sree Narayana Manava Dharmam Trust’ cannot be an idle spectator to the devastating impact of the impugned Act taken as a whole on the Muslim community of India and to social justice in our country," it has told the top court..The Waqf matter will be heard at 2 pm today by a bench comprising of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, Justice PV Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Viswanathan.The top court has prohibited filing of more petitions in the matter and said those seeking to challenge the law, can moved intervention applications to add to the arguments of the existing petitioners..In the intervention application, the trust has said the law in effect abolishes Waqf in India."The impugned Act explicitly but erroneously treats the Waqf mechanism as a non- religious institution, thus deleting in its entirety the body of Islamic law as the basic governing law of Waqf, replacing Islamic law with the law laid down by the Impugned Act," the application states.It further argues that the amended law imposes on the entire Muslim community of the country "an unconstitutional sui generis state-designed and state-imposed scheme" for controlling charitable donations by Muslims."The Impugned Act is un ultra vires because the Parliament has no power to impose such a scheme on any section of the people and is therefore a fraud on the Constitution. This sui generis state-designed and state-imposed scheme violates the constitutional rights of the Muslim community under Articles 21, 25, 26 and 29(1)," the plea adds.It has also argued that Muslim community will be left without the economic and financial wherewithal to sustain the practice of their religion as a result of the government takeover of the Waqf mechanism."The Impugned Act thus threatens the very existence of the Muslim community in India which depends for its survival on the Waqf mechanism which has been for centuries, and continues to be, the most important source of economic and financial resources essential for the practice and survival of Islam in India. As the Impugned Act will liquidate the economic and financial foundations of the Muslim community," the plea states..The plea filed through advocate Vaibhav Choudhary has been drawn and settled by advocate Dr. G Mohan Gopal.