A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court declined to stay the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 in its entirety, but partially stayed the five-year practising-Muslim condition for creating a waqf and the provision letting a revenue officer determine waqf-versus-government-land disputes. The constitutional challenge itself remains undecided.
The Supreme Court's 4:1 Constitution Bench in Sabarimala held the exclusion of menstruating-age women from the temple unconstitutional and struck Rule 3(b).