New Delhi, April 10 -- A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the various provisions of the Waqf Act,1995 and certain provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, alleging discrimination against other communities and demanding equal status and safeguards for their properties.

The PIL filed by one Parul Khera said that provisions in the 1995 Act grant special status to Waqf properties denying same status to Trust, Mutts, Akharas and societies and confer unguided and unchecked powers to Waqf Boards to register any property as Waqf property.

The Act 1995 runs counter to the equality clause and concept of a Secular State, it said.

The conferment of special rights, status and power to Waqf property and Waqf Board is in viola...