In a respite to the administration of 1000’s of Waqf properties throughout Uttar Pradesh, the UP State Waqf Tribunal has granted a six-month extension for registration on the UMEED Central Portal on the petition filed by the UP Sunni Waqf Board.
The deadline for the web registration has now been prolonged until June 5 2026.
The order, pronounced at the moment, takes notice of the “persistent technical glitches” and server instability that made compliance with the December 6 deadline ‘unimaginable’ for a lot of stakeholders.
The Tribunal’s Bench, comprising Chairman Prahlad Singh-II and Member Ram Suresh Verma, allowed the applying moved by the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, extending the deadline from December 6, 2025 to June 5, 2026.
This choice successfully invokes the proviso to Part 3B(1) of the Unified Waqf Administration, Empowerment, Effectivity and Improvement (UMEED) Act, 1995 (as amended in 2025).
As per the media studies, round 40,000 waqf in UP are but to be registered after the final date expired on December 5. There are round 1.26 lakh waqf properties in UP of which 86,000 have been uploaded on the UMEED portal to date.
For context, as per the newly inserted Part 3B of 2025 Act, it’s obligatory for each waqf to file the main points of the waqf and the property devoted to the waqf on the portal and database inside a interval of 6 months from the date of its graduation and the final date for submitting the main points on the portal and database is expired on December 6.
Earlier than the tribunal, the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, represented by counsels Syed Aftab Ahmad and Mohd. Tariq Saeed, claimed that it’s constantly trying to add the requisite particulars on the official UMEED Portal, nevertheless, the portal has remained non-functional more often than not, thereby stopping completion of the method.
It was additionally apprised to the tribunal that there exist 1000’s of Waqfs through which no Mutawalli or Managing Committee is presently functioning and the applicant does not possess full data concerning their present standing, verification and inspection of such properties require further time.
Due to this fact, it was contended that Sunni Waqf Board wants additional alternative to gather essential particulars and thereafter add them as ‘Maker’ on the Portal.
In its 9 web page order, the Tribunal famous that the method, which includes a 3-tier verification system by a ‘Maker’ (Mutawalli), ‘Checker’ (Board) and ‘Approver’, was crippled by technical snags.
The order additionally takes under consideration the observe points confronted by the Board that constituted “enough trigger” for the delay:
- The board and their Mutawallis confronted quite a few technical points within the importing course of, equivalent to Frequent server breakdowns, login failures on the Checker and Approver phases
- Delay or non-receipt of OTP, session/webpage getting timed out after 20 minutes of login by a make
- Nonavailability of provision/possibility for saving the uploaded information and so on., within the technique of the updating of the information and particulars of the waqf properties
The Board submitted that these points had been solely partially addressed by October 2025, leaving an inadequate window to course of the “extraordinarily massive quantity” of properties in Uttar Pradesh, which has the very best variety of Auqaf within the nation.
Taking into account these points, the Bench discovered substances within the petition because it noticed thus:
“…it seems that the problems which have are available the way in which of the method of importing the information and particulars of the waqf properties had been past the management of the stakeholders. So, they’re thought-about as enough causes for inflicting the obstacle within the technique of completion of updation inside the preliminary six months“.
The Tribunal additionally referred to Supreme Courtroom’s December 1 order offering that the treatment for in search of an extension lay earlier than the Waqf Tribunal beneath the statutory proviso of Part 3B.
For context, this provision gives that the tribunal could lengthen such preliminary interval for six months on the applying of Mutawalli on the bottom of enough trigger.
Thus, the applying filed by the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board was ALLOWED. Consequently, six months had been granted for the completion of the method of importing the main points of Waqf and their properties located inside the territory of UP on the UMEED Portal.
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