Madras High Court strikes down Tamil Nadu amendment to Wakf law
A Bench of Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy struck down the provisions that enabled the Tamil Nadu Wakf Board Chief Executive Officer to order the eviction of encroachers.
The Madras High Court recently struck down the Tamil Nadu government's 2010 amendment to the 1995 Wakf Act, a Central legislation [Mohmood Hussain v. State of Tamil Nadu and ors].