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Educational rights

Sir, — The report `11-judge Bench for a re-look at minority educational rights' (March 31): One hopes that the apex court would soon decide the long pending issues with respect to minority educational rights. A seven-member bench, which was constituted for the purpose in 1994, reframed the questions and referred them to a larger bench. An 11-member bench constituted when M.M. Punchi was the Chief Justice, had to be disbanded halfway before deciding the issues as some of the members (of the bench) had retired. One hopes at least this time there would be some fruitful adjudication by the constituted 11-member bench.

The Supreme Court had observed in 1992: "The best compliment that can be paid to a minority educational institution is that it doesn't rest on or proclaim its minority status." That may be the conception idealist in the opinion of the court. But what has been happening in practice in reality is totally otherwise.

Avuthu Srihari,
Secunderabad

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