Supreme Court paves way to secure minority tag to Aligarh Muslim University

Without number status, AMU volition person to statesman implementing preservation policies for some teachers and students successful a akin mode arsenic different nationalist universities. If this presumption is granted, the assemblage tin supply up to 50% preservation for Muslim students. Currently, AMU does not travel immoderate preservation policies of the state. However, it does person an interior preservation policy, wherever 50% of seats are reserved for students who person studied successful its affiliated schools oregon colleges.

This issue, which is implicit fractional a period old, was erstwhile decided earlier the Supreme Court erstwhile a five-judge Constitution Bench held that AMU was not a number institution. The court, successful 1967, had referred to the Aligarh Muslim University Act, 1920, which established the assemblage and held that AMU was neither established nor administered by the Muslim assemblage — a request for number acquisition institutions nether Article 30 (1) of the Constitution.

The Act was amended successful 1981 to authorities that the assemblage had been “established by the Muslims of India”. In 2005, the assemblage reserved 50% of seats successful postgraduate aesculapian courses for Muslim students.

As such, the Allahabad High Court had struck down the preservation argumentation and the 1981 amendment aft which, the verdict was challenged successful the Supreme Court.