SC questions Centre’s stance on amendment restoring AMU minority status: ‘You have to stand by what Parliament has done’
Ananthakrishnan G | 25 January 2024 | The Indian Express
The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta’s submission that the government did not accept the 1981 amendment made by Parliament to the Aligarh Muslim University Act, and said it cannot take such a stand.
The top court said that “irrespective of which government represents the cause of the Union of India, Parliament’s cause is eternal, indivisible and indestructible” and that the government would have to stand by the amendment.
It began with Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who was part of a seven-judge Constitution bench hearing the question of AMU’s minority status, asking Mehta, appearing for the Centre, whether he accepted the 1981 amendment.
Presided by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, the bench also comprises Justices Surya Kant, JB Pardiwala, Dipankar Datta, Manoj Misra and Satish Chandra Sharma. The court is hearing a reference made to it by a three-judge bench in February 2019….