Dhavan stresses on the functions of the Court - so... ... Aligarh Muslim University Minority Status: Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing [Day 8]

Dhavan stresses on the functions of the Court - so it becomes an advisory body, that is the big change that is made. Our submission is, once you have decided the question of established by a Statute then everything else my lord... but had that not been decided, that statute part, these should have been struck down. Because that is quite clearly evasive.

Khanna J : Mr Dhavan, the you are accepting that post these amendments there was a change in the administration

Dhavan : Yes

Khanna J : And the minority role as far as the administration in concerned, by these amendments was diluted?

Dhavan: I am saying on de jure.

Khanna J : no no that was something separate. De jure it was certainly diluted if not withdrawn. When you are saying it should be struck you should be accepting that

Dhavan : had the ratio in Basha, the statutory intervention not been decided, had they gone into these questions, these evasive provisions would have been struck down. Thats what I am saying