Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH) president Maulana Mahmood Madani has questioned the role of India’s judiciary and warning that “organised efforts” are underway to impose the supremacy of a single group across India.
Addressing the JUH governing body meeting in Bhopal, Madani said public confidence in the courts had weakened following the Babri Masjid verdict and several subsequent decisions, creating the perception that the judiciary operates under government influence.
A court that does not uphold its constitutional duty “does not deserve to be called supreme,” he added.
Madani cautioned that systematic measures were being used to make minorities “legally helpless, socially isolated and economically disgraced.”
These efforts, he said, include economic boycotts, bulldozer demolitions, mob lynchings, attacks on Waqf properties, and sustained negative propaganda against madrassas and Islamic institutions.
The BJP dismissed Madani’s remarks as “divisive and misleading,” claiming Madani was attempting to create communal tension. However, rights groups and independent observers note that his concerns reflect a broader pattern under the BJP-RSS regime, where laws, institutions and social campaigns are increasingly weaponised to marginalise Muslims.
