India, Sept. 13 -- The Supreme Court will on Monday deliver its order on whether to suspend the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, nearly four months after reserving its ruling on a batch of 21 petitions that challenge the validity of the new law.

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai and Justice AG Masih will pronounce the ruling on September 15. The petitions were argued over three days in May, following which the court reserved its decision on May 22.

The development comes against the backdrop of an August 22 hearing, when the bench declined to stay a Union government notification mandating that all waqf properties across the country be registered on a centralised digital portal within six months. The notification, issued ...