AMU Minority Status Case: In a relief to the Aligarh Muslim University, the seven-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Friday delivered four separate judgments in the Aligarh Muslim University minority status case. The SC, which gave a 4-3 majority verdict in the case, said it will now be decided by a three-judge bench. However, the Supreme Court overturned a 1967 ruling that since AMU was a central university, it could not be considered a minority institution.
In its majority ruling, the Supreme Court held that the question of AMU’s minority status must be decided on the basis of its prescribed tests. The Supreme Court has also laid down the criteria for determining AMU’s status as a minority institution.
A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said there were four different opinions, including three different judgments. The CJI said he wrote the majority judgment for himself and Justices Sanjiv Khanna, JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.
Justices Chandrachud said Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma each delivered different verdicts.
