The Delhi High Court on May 12 sought the stand of the Central Government and Central Waqf Council on a PIL seeking to declare that the Waqf Act is in violation of the Constitution and that private properties of citizens can only be governed by a Uniform Civil Code.
A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla issued notice on the petition by Devendra Nath Tripathi and granted time to the respondents to file their response.
The petitioner claimed in the petition that the Union of India does not have the legislative competence to make laws concerning ‘Waqf’ and religious properties at the exclusion of Non-Muslim citizens of the country and a welfare State is duty-bound to provide equal social, economic, political and religious freedom and opportunities to every citizen of India and laws like Waqf Act have no place.
