The year that was–11 | SC’s UP Madarsa Act judgment: Restoring the unity–diversity balance
The theme of forcing unity through law and suspicion of distinctness has been common in the discourse of the autonomy of religious minority institutions. The judgment in the UP Madarsa Act is a crucial stand against that trend, writes Afeef Mohammed.
Mohammed Afeef is an advocate practising in the courts of Bengaluru, including the Karnataka High Court. he represented People’s Union for Civil Liberties on behalf of sex workers along with his colleagues Syeda Saba and Poorna Ravishankar in the Karnataka Human Rights Commission.