SG : de factor status would not change the legal status, eg there had never been a lady Attorney General that doesn't mean it has to be a man

Khanna J : that argument is slightly different. Whether administration can be judged only on the basis of what has happened in the last 103 yrs, any time when chancellors and vice chancellors were non-muslims?

CJI: and why is it that before and post constitution the predominant choice of successive govt. for Chancellors have been Muslims, that has to be borne in mind

SG : by govt. appointing a particular community though the law doesn't require it to do change the character of the university