The story so far: The Supreme Court on April 5 stayed the operation of the Allahabad High Court’s decision declaring the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 unconstitutional. Iftikhar Ahmed Javed, chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education, told Reuters earlier that the High Court’s ruling had the potential to impact 2.7 million students and 10,000 …
The Supreme Court on Friday imposed an interim stay on the Allahabad High Court's order quashing the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 after the high court deemed it “unconstitutional”. Enacted in 2004, the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act's purpose was to streamline madrassa education, defining it as education in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Islamic studies, Tibb, …
