The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, has reserved its verdict on the minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) following an in depth eight-day debate. The seven-judge bench, together with justices Sanjiv Khanna, Surya Kant, J B Pardiwala, Dipankar Datta, Manoj Misra, and Satish Chandra Sharma, thought of arguments from opposing sides.
The AMU’s minority status has been entangled in authorized intricacy for a number of many years, with references made to a seven-judge bench in 2019 and an identical occasion in 1981. The 1967 S Azeez Basha versus Union of India case, adjudicated by a five-judge structure bench, concluded that AMU, being a central college, could not be categorized as a minority establishment. However, the college regained its minority status in 1981 by the passage of the AMU (Amendment) Act.
In January 2006, the Allahabad High Court nullified a provision of the 1981 legislation that conferred minority status on the college. This led to appeals from each the Congress-led UPA authorities and the college itself. In 2016, the BJP-led NDA authorities expressed its intention to withdraw the UPA authorities’s attraction, asserting AMU’s non-minority status based mostly on authorities funding, as highlighted within the 1967 Basha case.
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