"Section 3 of the 1920-Act laid down that "the... ... Aligarh Muslim University Minority Status Case : Live Updates From Supreme Court [Day 5]

"Section 3 of the 1920-Act laid down that "the First Chancel- lor, Pro-Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor shall be the persons appointed in this behalf by a notification of the Governor General in Council in the Gazette of India-and the persons specified in the schedule [shall be] the first members of the Court" and they happened to be all Muslims. Further s. 3 constituted a body corporate by the name of the Aligarh Muslim University and this body corporate was to have perpetual succession and a Common Seal and could sue and be sued by that name. Section 4 dissolved the M.A.0. College and the Muslim University Association and all property, movable and immovable, and all rights, powers and privileges of the two said societies, and all property, movable and immovable, and all rights, powers and privileges of the Muslim University Foundation Committee were transferred and 'vested in the Aligarh University and were to be applied to the objects and purposes for which the Aligarh University was incorporated....."