Waqf Amendment Act Challenge : Live Updates From Suprem Court [Hearing On Interim Order -Day 3]
CJI: its integral to all religion
Sibal: but its not a charity to god, once a waqf always a waqf
Sibal: what is the charity for? for afterlife
Sibal: Union argues that charity is one by all and belongs to none, its wrong because its tenet of Islam
Sibal: I want to explain some fundamentals of Islam, some i learnt from other side [laughs]
Sibal: ownership is still with me in the 1904 and 1954, but in the 2025 Act, ownership goes
CJI: see submissions of ASI in JPC- though guide license were given by ASI, mutawalli were also giving- not allowing to preserve the religious character
Sibal: what 3D says is not what 1904 and 1954 says- the latter says it pray will continue
CJI: whatever is saved by the Act will continue
Sibal: no mylords, the latest act overrides
CJI: we will consider
Sibal: JPC report- ASI proposed, but JPC rejected:
it should be noted original bill didn't have 3D as annexed from JPC's report below
Sibal: he rightly said a part of 3D was discussed in JPC but rejected because it was not there in the Bill
Sibal: WAMSI Report from 2013- predigitisation work is in process, where digitisation is complete is only 4. By 2013, predigitisation was not completed. now, they say its not registered
Sibal: its a rule of evidence- it cannot be done way with legislation