By TCN News
Aligarh: In the wake of NDA government’s withdrawal as one of the petitioners challenging the 2005 Allahabad High Court verdict on Aligarh Muslim University’s minority status, the Vice Chancellor of AMU, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah assured all well wishers of the institution that they are prepared and ready with the best lawyers in the country.
The team of lawyers includes Harish Salve, Rajeev Dhawan and P.P. Rao as well as Gopal Subramanium, who will take part according to his availability schedule.
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“We are fully prepared and confident that justice will prevail as we have full faith in our judiciary and wisdom and sagacity of our Prime Minister who will stand by his belief of ‘Sub Ka Saath – Sub ka Vikas’,” said Lt. Gen. Shah, VC, AMU.
“We would request you not fall prey to rumour mongering. Have faith in us. Let the judicial process not be hampered by use of unconstitutional means,” he added.
He further said that the “AMU fraternity and other right thinking and fair minded citizens of our great country are quite rightly concerned about the outcome of the issue of restoration of minority character of AMU.”
He said that the case is being heard before the Hon’ble Supreme Court. The first hearing was on January 11, 2016.
Notably, in a substantial change in stance on Monday, the NDA government withdrew its name as one of the petitioners challenging the 2005 Allahabad High Court verdict which said the University had no right to reserve its seats for Muslims. The NDA government has in fact, told the Supreme Court that it supports the Allahabad HC verdict.
The UPA government had, along with the AMU administration, challenged the HC verdict and following this, the Supreme Court had in 2006 put a stay on the verdict.