The Aligarh Muslim University.
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Lucknow: Teachers and students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) hailed the judgement of the Supreme Court overturning the 1967 decision in Azizi Pasha vs Government of India pertaining to its minority status and termed it as ‘historic’.
The students, who gathered at the Bab-e-Syed gate inside the University after the verdict was announced, burst firecrackers and distributed sweets.
‘’It is a historic decision…..we welcome it…it is victory of the rights of the minorities in general and AMU in particular,’’ Prof. Faizan Mustafa, former registrar of the AMU, who had filed the petition challenging the Pasha judgement in the SC, said.
Former director of Urdu Academy and ex-PRO of AMU Rahat Abrar said that the SC verdict was an approval of the demand of the AMU community that this issue must be done away with.
‘’The decision of the apex court has confirmed the principles on which the AMU was founded,’’ said AMU Teachers’ Association secretary Obaid Siddique.
The SC while overturning the Pasha judgement, said that a regular bench would decide if the minority status of AMU would remain.