Will the minority status of AMU remain intact or will it end? Supreme Court’s decision today, read live updates

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will give its verdict today regarding the minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Chief Justice of India D.Y. A seven-member Constitution bench headed by Chandrachud will decide whether the university’s status as a minority institution will continue or not. Earlier, the Constitution Bench headed by CJI Chandrachud had reserved the decision in this matter.

Apart from the CJI, this bench includes Justice Sanjeev Khanna, Justice Surya Kant, Justice J.B. Pardiwala, Justice Dipankar Dutta, Justice Manoj Mishra and Justice SC Sharma. The Constitution bench of the Supreme Court was hearing in connection with a 2006 judgment of the Allahabad High Court. It was said in the High Court order that AMU is not a minority institution.

In the year 2019, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court had handed over the case to a seven-judge bench. A Constitution bench of seven judges heard the petitions filed regarding granting minority status to Aligarh Muslim University under Article 30 of the Constitution of India and later reserved the decision. The court heard this case for eight days.

S of the year 1968. In the case of Aziz Basha vs Union of India, the Supreme Court had considered AMU as a central university, but in the year 1981, the minority status of the institute was restored by amending the AMU Act 1920. Later this was challenged in the Allahabad High Court and the matter reached the Supreme Court.