Relief For Aligarh Muslim University: Should It Get Minority Status?

A seven-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court ruled 4:3 Friday to overturn a key 1967 judgement on the Aligarh Muslim University - which removed minority status - but left it to a regular (as yet unconstituted) three-judge bench to decide if the institution should be granted this again.

The bench, led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud - who authored the majority judgement on his last working day - struck down an earlier ruling that said an institution incorporated by a statute could not claim minority status, but left the question as it pertains to AMU to a regular bench.