Kerala Waqf Board tells Supreme Court it was ‘completely ignored' by JPC
'The main grievance put forth by the Kerala State Waqf Board is that the present JPC did not visit the State of Kerala… The Kerala State Waqf Board is one of the best working Boards in the country as reported by the JPC in 2013. But the present JPC completely ignored the State of Kerala and the Kerala State Waqf Board,' the State's Waqf Board through A. Haseeb, the Chief Executive Officer (in-charge), represented by advocate Subhash Chandran, submitted.
The Board said JPC had just met some stakeholders in the State in Bengaluru.
'The stakeholders and beneficiaries from the State of Kerala have been severely discriminated against,' the Board claimed.
The Waqf Board was responding to an April 17 order of the apex court which had recorded the Centre's statement that neither would waqfs be denotified nor appointments of non-Muslims be made under the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.
Objecting to the 2025 amendments, the Kerala Board since 'a Waqf Board is an organisation that supervises the properties set apart for pious, religious and charitable deeds according to Islamic beliefs, naturally the members of Waqf Board must be only Muslims'.
The apex court is scheduled to hear the waqf case on May 5, 2025.
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