Apex court left AMU question hanging

The Supreme Court did well to overrule the 1967 Azeez Basha judgment that had denied minority status to the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

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The debate about AMU's minority character has been a political issue, going beyond the specific case of the university to influence the discourse on constitutional provisions concerning minorities. Hence, the apex court's elaborations on Article 30 (1), which guarantees linguistic and religious minorities the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice, and the provision of a detailed framework for assessing if an institution can claim minority status under the said constitutional provision, will help clar