Regarding West Bengal, the minister said that during the initial six months, “23,091 existing waqf properties were initiated by Makers on the Portal. Out of these, 716 properties were validated and approved by Approvers, while 161 properties were rejected during verification. The remaining were at various stages of uploading.”
The West Bengal government has accepted the Centre’s Waqf Amendment Act, 2025, ending a months-long standoff. Officials have been directed to upload details of 82,000 waqf properties to the central portal by December 5. CM Mamata Banerjee had previously vowed to block the law.
The namaz at Pune’s Shaniwar Wada was not an innocent act of prayer but a symbolic test of Hindu vigilance, a part of a wider pattern where temporary acts of devotion over a period of time are used to stake ownership claims.
The Division Bench observed that the orders of the Waqf Board were issued with unreasonable delay, and were unenforceable because they violated the law.