Mahua Moitra, an MP for the Trinamool Congress (TMC), has also petitioned the Supreme Court to invalidate the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. Ten further applications, including the one submitted by AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, contesting the law's legitimacy have been scheduled for hearing on April 16 by a three-judge panel made up of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justices Sanjay Kumar, and KV Viswanathan.
Zia-ur-Rahman Barq, a Sambhal MP for the Samajwadi Party, lately also entered a plea in the highest court on the matter.
Moitra, who entered her plea on April 9, claimed that the contentious amendment infringed multiple constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights in addition to having significant procedural flaws.
"It is submitted that the violation of parliamentary practices during the law-making process has contributed to the unconstitutionality of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025," the complaint stated.
"Procedurally, the Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee flouted parliamentary rules and practices both at the stage of consideration and adoption of the draft report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill and at the stage of presentation of the said report before Parliament," stated the statement.
Dissenting views from the opposition MPs were purportedly removed without explanation from the final report that was sent to Parliament on February 13, 2025, according to the appeal.
It claimed that such acts went against accepted conventions as stated in authoritative parliamentary procedural guides and weakened Parliament's deliberate process.
According to the plea, the new law violated the Constitution's Articles 14 (equality before the law), 15(1) (non-discrimination), 19(1)(a) and (c) (freedom of speech and association), 21 (right to life and personal liberty), 25 and 26 (freedom of religion), 29 and 30 (minority rights), and 300A (right to property).
Citing the Act's fundamental constitutional faults and procedural flaws, Moitra attempted to have the entire Act struck down.
The top court has also been consulted by AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, AAP leader Amanatullah Khan, Samastha Kerala Jamiathul Ulema, Arshad Madani, Taiyyab Khan Salmani, Anjum Kadari, Mohammad Shafi, Mohammed Fazlurrahim, and RJD leader Manoj Kumar Jha.
Other important petitioners in the case include Congress MPs Imran Pratapgarhi and Mohammad Jawed, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB).
