A hearing was held in the Supreme Court on Tuesday regarding the Madrasa case.
On one hand, the Supreme Court has stayed the order of Allahabad High Court and reserved its decision.
At the same time, Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh raised objection against the complete abolition of Madrasa law. The UP government says that those provisions which are violative should be abolished.
In fact, the High Court had termed the Madrassa law as a violation of the principle of secularism. Also, orders were issued that more than 12 lakh students studying in 13 thousand 364 madrassas should be admitted to regular schools recognized by the State Education Board.
What did the UP government say?
Responding to the questions asked by the apex court during the hearing of the case, Additional Solicitor General KM Natarajan, appearing for the Uttar Pradesh government, said that the state government is not in favor of completely abolishing the UP Madrasa Education Board Act, 2004.
He told the bench that the state government was of the view that the Allahabad High Court should not have declared the entire Madrassa Act as unconstitutional.
Natarajan told the bench that the state government is in favor of abolishing those provisions of the Madrasa Act which are violative.
In response to a question from the Additional Solicitor on behalf of the UP Government, he said that I support the validity of the Madrasa Act.
That, the constitutionality (of the law) has been struck down, so we want to say something. We are defending the law. He said that the state government had filed its reply in the High Court in favor of the Act and it still stood by its stand.
What did the Supreme Court say?
On this, the bench said, ‘The state government is interested in bringing madrassas into the mainstream. Otherwise, if such institutions are not introduced to mathematics, science and other mainstream subjects, then how will they produce capable citizens.
“We will interpret the law that way, but striking down the law completely is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.”
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