BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction upon the Central Government to lay down guidelines for identification of minorities "at State level", in spirit of its verdict in the TMA Pai case. Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsee, as minorities "at national level", thus giving them the right to establish & administer minority educational …
The Supreme Court has observed that the medium of instruction, whether it be Hindi, English, Bengali or some other language would be wholly irrelevant to discover as to whether the said school was founded by a linguistic minority for the purpose of imparting education to members of its community.The bench comprising Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, Justice R. Subhash Reddy and …
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