Deadline ends today, no waqf registration extension: Rijiju

NEW DELHI: Over 4.6 lakh waqf spot uploads had been initiated till Friday evening connected the number affairs ministry's UMEED cardinal portal. The six-month deadline for uploading details, keeping with the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, volition extremity Saturday, and Union curate Kiren Rijiju made it wide that determination volition beryllium nary extension.

Those near retired tin attack the waqf tribunal, helium said. However, the ministry has said arsenic a "humanitarian and facilitative" measurement for those who were incapable to register, nary penalties oregon strict enactment volition beryllium initiated for the adjacent 3 months, enabling those who whitethorn person not been capable to upload owed to genuine reasons to attack the tribunal. As per the law, lone if the tribunal is satisfied with the reasons for not filing wrong the deadline, it tin let an hold of up to six months.The ministry besides issued a connection connected number affairs curate Rijiju's remarks to reporters connected Friday. "The six-month deadline mandated nether the Act has ended, and cannot beryllium extended owed to provisions of the Act, and wide directions of the SC," helium added."However, recognising the concerns of mutawallis, the curate assured that the ministry volition not enforce immoderate penalties oregon instrumentality strict enactment for the adjacent 3 months arsenic a humanitarian and facilitative measure," the ministry said.

"Mutawallis who are incapable to implicit registration process earlier midnight connected Saturday tin attack the waqf tribunal, which has the ineligible authorization to assistance an extension. The curate has repeatedly emphasised that immoderate alteration successful the legally mandated timeline is not possible, arsenic it is bound by the instrumentality passed by Parliament and upheld by SC," it said.The Centre had launched the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency, and Development (UMEED) cardinal portal connected June 6 to make a integer inventory aft geo-tagging each waqf properties which volition beryllium assigned a unsocial ID number.