Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 142 · Decided 5 May 1971
D. A. V. College Bathinda, ETC. v. State of Punjab & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 142 · [1971] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 677
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 353/1970
- Decided
- 5 May 1971
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, G.K. MITTER, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32; Registration Act
Headnote
Punjabi University Act, 1961 (35 of 1961), s. 4(3}-University making Punjabi the sole medium of Instruction and examination-A~tion ultra vrres the power conferred by section-Also infringes rights of religious minority to conserve their script and administer theif institutions. The petitioners are by the D.A.V. College Trust and Society registered under the Societies Registration Act as an association comprised of Arya Samajis. These institutions were. be­ fore the reorganisation of the State of Punj~b in 1966, affiliated to the Punjab University constituted under the Punjab University
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