Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 333 · Decided 5 May 2004
Usha Mehta and ORS. v. State of Maharashtra and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 333 · [2004] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 226
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 132/1995
- Decided
- 5 May 2004
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, AR. LAKSHMANAN, G.P. MATHUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 29, 30(1)
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950-Article 29 & JO-Educational rights C of the linguistic minority-Educational policy of the State of Maharashtra­ Imposition of the regional Marathi language as a compulsory study in schools run by linguistic minorities-Held, not violative of the linguistic of the Constitution. D Maharashtra State Government took a policy decision to make study of Marathi language compulsory throughout the schools in that State. As a result, the English Medium Schools run by Gujarati linguistic minorities were compelled to teach four languages (Hindi, English,
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