‘Can varsity be a minority institution?’

“Can a university itself be termed as a minority institution,” the Supreme Court on Monday   asked during the hearing of a plea seeking a direction to quash the appointment of Aligarh Muslim University’s vice-chancellor Lt Gen (Retd) Zameeruddin Shah. 

The remark by a bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice U U Lalit came when senior advocate Salman Khurshid, appearing for one of the parties, submitted that it has to be seen to what extent the apex court can interefere in the matter in view of the fact that another bench was dealing with the issue whether AMU was a minority institution.