How does it matter for people whether the Aligarh
Muslim University is a minority institution or not when it has continued to be
an institute of national importance without the minority tag, the SC said as it
underlined that the intent of Article 30 of the Constitution is not to
"ghettoise the minority".
Some of the other important cases that were heard
today are:
SC extended by six months the interim bail of former
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik in a money laundering case.
SC questioned the Centre about why reports of the
court-appointed Technical Experts Committee (TEC) on biosafety of genetically
modified (GM) Crops were not looked into by the Genetic Engineering Appraisal
Committee (GEAC).
SC agreed to hear on
January 12 a plea of union minister of state for home affairs Nisith Pramanik
seeking anticipatory bail in an attempt-to-murder case lodged against him in
2018.