Challenge To Waqf Amendment Act 2025 : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing

CJI: Mr Dhavan, you are the eldest, would you like to go first?

CJI: at the outset, two questions: we will be calling out names, unless you have decided who goes first.

two aspects, please don't repeat. 1 should we relegate back to high court 2. what you are going to argue

CJI: Before anybody appeals, we will call out names. We cannot hear everybody.

Sr Advs Kapil Sibal, Rajeev Dhavan, AM Singhvi, CU Singh etc on petitioners' side.

Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta for the Union.

Sr Advs Kapil Sibal, Rajeev Dhavan, AM Singhvi, CU Singh etc on petitioners' side.

Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta for the Union.

Matter to begin soon. Follow this thread for live updates.

One counsel mentions his petition (against Waqf Amendment Act) for listing, says it is numbered but not listed.

CJI Khanna says all matters cleared by the Registry by 11 AM today will be listed.

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Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi to appear for actor Vijay in his petition challenging the Waqf Act.

Separately, Mohammad Hamdullah Sayeed, Member of Parliament from Lakshadweep, has also approached the Court. Sayeed challenges the constitutional validity of Section 3E of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, on the ground that it forces individuals like him, both Scheduled Tribe members under the Fifth Schedule and practising Muslims, into a false binary between tribal and religious identity. The petition argues that the provision violates Articles 14, 25, 26, and 300A of the Constitution. 

Daya Singh, a practising Sikh and the President of Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Gurgaon, moves the Supreme Court challenging the Waqf Amendment Act 2025.

He contends that the amendments infringe upon his fundamental right to make charitable endowments across religious lines, a practice rooted in Sikh values.