Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution ensure freedom of conscience, the right to practice, propagate religion, and the right to establish and manage institutions for religious and charitable purposes, it said.The plea is settled by advocate M R Shamshad, with advocate-on-record Talha Abdul Rahman representing the Muslim personal law board, through its General Secretary Maulana Fazlur Raheem Mujaddidi.Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind also filed a petition in the apex court, claiming it was a “dangerous conspiracy” to strip Muslims of their religious freedom.In its petition, Jamiat said the law was a “direct attack on the country’s Constitution, which not only provides equal rights to its citizens but also grants them complete religious freedom.”In its separate plea filed in the top court, Samastha Kerala Jamiath ul Ulema, a religious organisation of Sunni Muslim scholars and clerics in Kerala, has claimed the Act was a “blatant intrusion” into the rights of a religious denomination to manage its own affairs in the matter of religion.NGO Association for the Protection of Civil Rights also filed a petition in the apex court challenging the constitutional validity of the Act.The bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha with 128 members voting in favour and 95 opposing it.It was cleared by the Lok Sabha with 288 members supporting it and 232 against it.AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan sought the law declared as unconstitutional, being violative of “Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 300-A of the Constitution.”
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