The Supreme Court refused to entertain 13 more petitions challenging constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, saying it cannot add any more pleas as they would become difficult to “handle”
A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra dismissed the review plea filed by Khem Singh Bhati against the top court's decision of August 2, 2024.
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed displeasure over “misrepresentation” of its last hearing in certain media reports pertaining to the hearing of a PIL against the practice of charging an additional fee for "VIP darshan" in temples across the country.
The Supreme Court would primarily test the constitutional validity of two provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 which was brought by the PV Narasimha Rao-led government to freeze the status of religious places as on August 15, 1947.
