Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has demanded that OBC reservation should be given in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). " There is a debate regarding minority status of Aligarh Muslim University.
The core questions for determination by the constitution bench are whether the Aligarh Muslim University was founded by the Muslims and when the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College was transformed into AMU in 1920 by the AMU Act, did it also carry with it the tag of (MAO College) being a Muslim minority institution.
The top court in 1967 had in the Azeez Bhasha case held that the AMU was a central university and, minority status under Article 29 and Article 30 cannot be conferred on it.
A lawyer was shot dead by bike-borne assailants in front of the JN Medical College near the Aligarh Muslim University…
Prof Arshad Hussain Khan of Mechanical Engineering Department, Ajay Bisaria of Hindi Department and Prof Farid Mehdi of Civil Engineering Department are in the inquiry committee.
An FIR was registered against him under section 153-A (Promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion) of IPC on December 13.
The students are demanding the resignation of top university officials for “failing” to secure justice for those who were allegedly the victim of police excesses during anti-CAA protests.
“Everything shouldn’t be always law centric. The government should also gauge the public mood and I think, as per the public mood, the government should immediately scrap this law,” said Nandita Rao, a Supreme Court lawyer.
“We are here to join with the students, not to strengthen them but to take strength from them, we are not here to inspire them but to take inspiration from them,” said Debojyoti Mishra, music composer.
Sunday witnessed a massive police-students face-off in Delhi as a raging mob of almost 1,000 people protested against the Citizenship Act.
