CJI: the logic of this judgement is therefore that if you have been established by the act does not itself indicate that you have not been established by the minority. Post 1956 even though you are established by a minority you still have to go through the route of either the establishment by the law or under law when you get deemed university status. Therefore the circumstance that the route which you followed through law making in now post 1956 is irrelevant to your minority status. Now does that one difference that arose prior to 1956 namely that you had a choice to either go through the legislative route or seeking to establish your own university without any recognition, in other words ...

SG : in those days it was the spirit that people preferred graduates of such universities which were not recognised by the British, IIT Roorkee was a nonlaw made university

Khanna J : as far as employment is concerned, there was hardly any private sector it was all govt. employment.

SG : In Gujarat I know several shipping companies, Mohan singh's father was serving (from non recognised universities) as one of the managers in the shipping countries in Gujarat

CJI: post constitution, that proposition of law is clearly unacceptable... now therefore does a proposition of law which ceases to apply post constitution nonetheless becomes valid merely because it is pre-constitution?