When legislation has undergone the due process of being considered by both Houses of Parliament, as well as a standing committee, and then the judiciary finds fault, as with the Waqf Amendment Act 2025, there can be only two reasons: incompetence or deliberate mischief. In this process, the legislature is as much to be blamed as the executive, meaning the government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The process of making news laws or amending old ones begins from the moment the government decides that new laws or amendments are necessary. The necessity in the case of the Waqf Amendment Act and the Mussalman Waqf (Repeal) Bill of 2024 was to bring about, as the Union home minister said, accountability, transparency and equity, “end the era of injustice and corruption”, prevent land g

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