[ad_1] While the AMU Act, 1920 speaks about incorporating a teaching and residential Muslim university in Aligarh, the 1951 amendment does away with compulsory religious instructions for Muslim students at the university. A seven-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud reserved its verdict on the vexed question that has repeatedly tested Parliament’s legislative…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Solicitor general Tushar Mehta on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that even Indira Gandhi government which amended the Aligarh Muslim University Act 1n 1981 to fulfil Congress party’s poll promise and which distorted the recorded history in order to show that the university had been established by Muslims, had refused to handover…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi on Tuesday cited a string of episodes from history to counter Supreme Court’s proposition that if Muslims were deemed to be the force behind Aligarh Muslim University in 1920, it could qualify as a minority institution in the post-Constitution era by arguing that Muslims, at that point of…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: What was the understanding of the Congress-led Union government in 1965 about Aligarh Muslim University’s character – a non-denominational body or minority educational institution – when it amended the AMU Act, 1920, to shift the administrative powers from the ‘University Court’ to its executive council and ended compulsory religious instructions to Muslim…
