Supreme Court of India In the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, the lower court’s order to ban Islamic madrassas has been suspended, bringing a sigh of relief to thousands of students studying in the madrassas.
Uttar Pradesh The stay of execution of the Allahabad High Court’s order issued last week is a victory for the Uttar Pradesh Islamic School Board, which challenged the High Court’s order in the Supreme Court.
According to a report by news portal Live Law, the Supreme Court said on Friday, “We are of the view that the issues raised in the petitions need to be carefully considered.”
Lawyers say the case will be reviewed in July and ‘all matters will be on hold until then.’
Madrasa The ban on so-called Islamic schools was seen as an attack on the country’s largest minority and led to calls for a ban on madrassas in other states as well.
Madrasahs have been part of Indian states for decades, where Muslim students are studying. In these Madrasahs, Islamic education was emphasized while other schools in India imparted traditional education.
Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad High Court on March 22 struck down the Madrasas Act of 2004 as ‘unconstitutional’ on the grounds that it violated the ‘principle of secularism’.
The court had also directed that the students of these institutions should be transferred to traditional schools.
The controversial decision comes days before voting begins in the country’s national elections in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are in the running for a third term.
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The multi-party elections in India will be the largest in the world, with an estimated 960 million people voting.
Following the court order, 2.7 lakh students and about 10,000 teachers from 25,000 madrasas in India’s most populous state would have been expelled.
The court will hear the matter in July, a month after the election process is completed in June.
Iftikhar Ahmed Javed, head of Madrassa Education Board in the state of Uttar Pradesh, welcomed the court’s decision and termed it a ‘big win’.
“We were really worried about the future of about 16 lakh (1.6 million) students and now this order will give relief to all of us,” he said.
Prime Minister Modi And his party, the BJP, which has been in power for 10 years, has been repeatedly accused of discriminating against minorities and fomenting anti-Islamic hate speech.
However, Modi has denied that there is discrimination against minorities in his government. They say that it is democracy that is working for the betterment of all.
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2024-09-21 22:53:10