India, Oct. 10 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Lok Sabha parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi has moved the Supreme Court seeking an extension of the six-month deadline prescribed under the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 for registration of waqfs on the government's digital portal.

The application, filed through advocate Nizam Pasha, was mentioned on Thursday before a bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai. Pasha urged the Court to clarify that the registration period be extended, since nearly five months of the six-month window had elapsed by the time the Court delivered its judgment finding favour with much of the amended law on September 15.

"Six months were given in the Act, five months went by...