JUDGMENT AND ORDER :

“The history shows that there can be no stable equilibrium in any country so long as an attempt is made to crush a minority or to force it to conform to the ways of the majority. The largest democracy of the world is also said to be the house of the most diverse societies in the world. It has people from all the major religions. Although the Hindus constitutes an overwhelming majority, but there is a considerable number of Muslims, Christians, Parsees, Buddhist and Jains religions too. The diversity in India is noticed on various fronts other than religion and culture such as language. Diversity is coupled with linguistic diversity. In addition to that there are also a number of Scheduled tribes and certain unidentified communities which are internally heterogeneous. All these make India a country which has not only religious but also linguistic and cultural diversity.”

Jawaharlal Nehru

2. The present application, under Article 226 of the Constitution (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Constitution’) is filed by St. Xavier College of Education, Digha Ghat, Patna, Bihar, which is a Minority Educational Institution, challenging the validity of the Statutes of the Arya

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