Supreme Court of India
The Gujarat University, Ahmedabad v. Krishna Ranganath Mudholkar and Others
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What the Court ordered
For the aforesaid reasons I hold that the University was well within its rights in prescribing, by statutes, the said two languages as media of instruction to replace English by stages.
Judgment, page 36
From the headnote
that neither under the Gujarat University Act, 1949, as originally enacted nor as amended by Act 4 of 1961, was power conferred on the University to impose Gujarati or Hindi or both as exclusive medium or media of instruction or examination and since no power was conferred on the University the Senate could exercise no such power. Clause (27) of s. 4 of the Act, which alone expressly dealt with the subject of medium of instruction, properly construed, did not indicate that the Legislature was therein indirectly dealing with the subject of prescribing an exclusive medium of instruction.
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Where later benches applied it
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- 2018 Tamil Nadu Medical Officers’ Association & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
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- 2013 Jagdish Prasad Sharma Etc. Etc. v. State of Bihar & Ors.
Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to · 2 mentioned
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