Supreme Court of India

Khalsa University and Another v. The State of Punjab and Another

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Reported as [2024] 10 S.C.R. 445
Bench B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan JJ.
Decided 3 October 2024

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we accept the contentions of the learned Counsel for the appellant, and hold that Section 5 of the Second Amendment Act (Act 11 of 1966), introducing Section 13-A in the Act, is discriminatory and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution and, as such, has to be struck down as unconstitutional.

Judgment, page 29

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration The High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by the appellants inter-alia seeking a writ in the nature of certiorari praying for quashing “The Khalsa University (Repeal) Act, 2017” dated 17 th July 2017. The issues which arises for consideration are: Whether an enactment for giving out a differential treatment to a single entity is valid in law or not; whether the Impugned Act is liable to be struck down on the ground of manifest arbitrariness. Headnotes † Khalsa University (Repeal) Act, 2017 – Whether an enactment for giving out a differential treatment to a

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