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Sir, — Amrik Singh in his article, "After the minority rights verdict" ( May 30 ), mistakenly says that the Supreme Court's judgment on October 31, 2002, in the minority educational rights case was delivered by a Bench of 11 judges, "the largest in the history of the Supreme Court so far". One may recall that the judgment in the Keshavananda Bharati case in 1973, wherein the basic structure theory of the Constitution was propounded, was delivered by a still larger Bench of 13 judges.

The article also says that the Bench was constituted "to discuss the validity or otherwise of Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution" and, at another place, that the Supreme Court "has upheld the validity of these two Articles." The purpose of the Bench was not to examine and decide upon the validity of these Articles of the Constitution which have been there since the original Constitution came into force, but only to look into the effect of one on another and decide on what they mean in practical application.

Avuthu Srihari,
Secunderabad

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