{"id":42280,"date":"2016-04-04T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=42280"},"modified":"2016-04-05T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T22:33:11","slug":"centre-not-support-amu-minority-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/centre-not-support-amu-minority-status","title":{"rendered":"Centre not to support AMU for its minority status"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42281\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/amu1.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42281\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42281\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/centre-not-support-amu-minority-status\/amu1\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/amu1.png?fit=759%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"759,422\" 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=\"amu1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/amu1.png?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/amu1.png?fit=640%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42281 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/amu1.png?resize=300%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Centre not to support AMU for its minority status\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/amu1.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/amu1.png?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Centre not to support AMU for its minority status<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Centre not to support AMU for its minority statusThe NDA government today told the Supreme Court that it would withdraw the appeal filed by the erstwhile UPA government challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict holding the Aligarh Muslim University as non-minority institution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I changed my mind two months ago,&#8221; Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a three-judge bench headed by Justice J S Kehar about the Centres decision to withdraw the appeal and distance itself from AMU, which has sought to counter it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am distancing myself from the AMU,&#8221; he further told the bench, also comprising Justices M B Lokur and C Nagappan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\">\n<div id=\"inread1_26817\">\n<div id=\"inread_26817\" class=\"mainAdView\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He submitted that as the AMU was set up by the central Act and in 1967, a five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court had in Aziz Basha judgement held it as a &#8220;central universitry&#8221; and not a minority institution.<\/p>\n<p>Rohatgi said 20 years later, an amendment was brought in 1981 to accord the university minority status which was held as unconstitutional by the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You cannot override the Aziz Basha judgement. Union of Indias stand is that according minority status to AMU would be contrary to the Aziz Basha judgement and it still holds good,&#8221; the top law officer told the bench which permitted the Centre to file an application along with an affidavit within eight weeks to withdraw the appeal filed by it.<\/p>\n<p>The bench said the AMU, which was represented by senior advocate P P Rao, thereafter, can file the counter-affidavit to the Centres stand and posted the matter for hearing after the summer vacation.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court also allowed some intervenors, for whom senior advocate Salman Khurshid appeared, to assist in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court had in January 2006 struck down the provision of the AMU (Amendment) Act, 1981 by which the University was accorded a minority status.<\/p>\n<p>The division bench of the High Court had upheld the decision of its single judge passed in 2005 by which it termed as &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; the granting of minority status to AMU and 50 per cent reservation to Muslims in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of AMUs minority status had cropped up before another bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur which was hearing a separate matter relating to the challenge of appointment of its Vice Chancellor Lt General (retd) Zameeruddin Shah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can a university itself be termed as a minority institution,&#8221; the bench, also comprising Justice U U Lalit, asked during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre not to support AMU for its minority statusThe NDA government today told the Supreme Court that it would withdraw the appeal filed by the erstwhile UPA government challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict holding the Aligarh Muslim University as non-minority institution. &#8220;I changed my mind two months ago,&#8221; Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":42281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[36337,21941,146,31987,117,80,3573],"class_list":["post-42280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-amu","tag-centre-government","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-minority-status"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Centre not to support AMU for its minority status - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Centre not to support AMU for its minority statusThe NDA government today told the Supreme Court that it would withdraw the appeal filed by the erstwhile - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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