{"id":233776,"date":"2024-02-02T00:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=233776"},"modified":"2024-02-02T00:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:08:38","slug":"sc-reserves-verdict-on-minority-status-of-amu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/sc-reserves-verdict-on-minority-status-of-amu\/","title":{"rendered":"SC reserves verdict on minority status of AMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 1 Feb:<\/strong> The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on the minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), after days of heated debate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A seven-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud heard the arguments put forth by the rival sides over eight days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bench also comprises Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Surya Kant, JB Pardiwala, Dipankar Datta, Manoj Misra and Satish Chandra Sharma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The issue of AMU&#8217;s minority status has been caught in a legal maze for the last several decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The top court had on 12 February, 2019 referred to a seven-judge bench the contentious issue. A similar reference was also made in 1981.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A five-judge constitution bench had in the S Azeez Basha versus Union of India case in 1967 held that, since AMU is a central university, it cannot be considered a minority institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the fabled institution got back its minority status when Parliament passed the AMU (Amendment) Act in 1981.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In January 2006, the Allahabad High Court struck down the provision of the 1981 law by which the university was accorded the minority status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress-led UPA government at the Centre moved in appeal against the Allahabad High Court order. The university also filed a separate petition against it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NDA government spearheaded by the BJP told the Supreme Court in 2016 that it would withdraw the appeal filed by the erstwhile UPA dispensation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It had cited the apex court&#8217;s 1967 judgment in the Basha case to claim that AMU is not a minority institution since it is a central university funded by the government. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 1 Feb: The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on the minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), after days of heated debate. A seven-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud heard the arguments put forth by the rival sides over eight days. The bench also comprises Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Surya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}