Supreme Court upholds Telugu test for judicial posts

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (April 29, 2025) refused to entertain 13 more petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, saying it cannot add any more pleas as they would become difficult to “handle”.

“We are not going to increase the number of petitions now…This will keep on piling and would become difficult to handle,” a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar said when a battery of lawyers of several petitioners urged that they be also heard along with other petitioners.

The bench, however, asked the petitioners, including Firoz Iqbal Khan, Imran Pratapgadhi, Shaik Muneer Ahmad and the Muslim Advocates Association, to intervene in the main pleas if they have additional grounds to challenge Waqf law.