The Supreme Court on Monday refused to extend the December 6 deadline for waqf properties to be registered on the UMEED portal as required by the 2025 Waqf Amendment Act passed in April, Live Law reported.
The Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development portal was developed by the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs to create a digital inventory of waqf properties by geo-tagging them.
A waqf is an endowment under Islamic law dedicated to a religious, educational or charitable cause. Each state has a waqf board led by a legal entity vested with the power to acquire, hold and transfer property.
On Monday, a bench of Justices Dipankar Dutta and AG Masih said that petitioners seeking an extension can approach the Waqf Tribunal. Section 3B of the Act gives the tribunal the power to extend the time limit, it noted.
Advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the petitioners, had said that while the amendment to the waqf law took effect on April 8 and the portal was operationalised on June 6, the rules were framed on July 3.
The court’s interim order on pleas challenging the amendments to the contentious Waqf Act came on September 15, he added.
The deadline to register the properties is December 6, six months since the portal became operational.
Sibal contended that the...
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