A 7-judge Supreme Court Constitution bench will start hearing from January 9 plea regarding the minority status of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). The bench presided by CJI D Y Chandrachud will also comprise Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Surya Kant, J B Pardiwala, Dipankar Datta, Manoj Misra and K V Viswanathan.
In 2005, the Allahabad HC had ruled that AMU is not a minority institution. AMU and the then UPA government challenged this before the SC. In 2016, the NDA government informed the SC that it is withdrawing the appeal filed by the government.
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