{"id":37675,"date":"2015-05-05T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=37675"},"modified":"2015-05-05T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:20:11","slug":"pil-challenging-ncmei-act-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-challenging-ncmei-act-filed","title":{"rendered":"PIL challenging NCMEI Act filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/NCMEI-Act.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"208\" height=\"242\" data-attachment-id=\"37676\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-challenging-ncmei-act-filed\/ncmei-act\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/NCMEI-Act.png?fit=208%2C242&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"208,242\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NCMEI Act\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/NCMEI-Act.png?fit=208%2C242&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/NCMEI-Act.png?fit=208%2C242&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37676\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/NCMEI-Act.png?resize=208%2C242&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NCMEI Act\" \/><\/a>The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has issued notices to the Chairman, University Grant Commission( UGC) and Secretary, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) on a PIL challenging the constitutional validity of NCMEI Act-2004.<\/p>\n<p>The PIL alleged that it was against the principle of secularism, on which the court provided three weeks time to the Union Government to file a reply.<\/p>\n<p>A division bench of Justices Shree Narain Shukla and Rajan Roy passed the order on April 29 on a PIL filed by Hindu Front For Justice, a group of 11 local lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners sought a direction or declaration to the effect that NCMEI) Act, 2004 is ultra vires to the constitution and against the principle of secularism and being void the Act be struck down\/quashed.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners&#8217; counsel H S Jain alleged that the Act allures the minority communities to establish Minority Educational Institutions by making special provisions for them.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the Act is discriminatory as similarly situated non-minority educational institutions have been deprived of such benefits, he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Jain submitted that the state cannot make any discrimination with non-minority educational institutions and no special provision giving more power and special procedure can be made in favour of minority educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Act, being violative of Article 14 (right to equality) of the constitution, is void and liable to be struck down, he further submitted.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Union of India, Additional Solicitor General Ashok Mehta sought three weeks time to file counter affidavit, which was allowed by the court.<\/p>\n<p>He submitted that till date the issue raised before this court has not been settled by the court of law and it is open for consideration of this court.<\/p>\n<p>The court, while issuing notices to NCMEI and UGC, directed to list this matter after three weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has issued notices to the Chairman, University Grant Commission( UGC) and Secretary, National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) on a PIL challenging the constitutional validity of NCMEI Act-2004. 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