Supreme Court Audio Transcript

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Yes. Now, there is no absolute standard of administration, that you must administer 100%. And even that 100% will be an elusive standard. So, to make Article 30 effective, we do not have to postulate that the administration by the minority has to be an absolute administration. In that sense today, in a regulated society, in a regulated state, nothing is absolute. Every aspect of... virtually every aspect of life is regulated in some way or the other. So, merely because the right to administer is regulated by a statute and to a certain extent is not untrammelled, does not detract from the minority character of the institution. That's the point we were making, I am grateful. That is the essential point. And then you add "of their choice." Of their choice. And it's establish, "establish" means, you must have founded it, as you said. Right. And that is a little more objective, but administration, I mean administration in that sense there's no statutory definition or constitutional definition of the expression "administer." The Courts have held what it means. Yes, the Courts have held what administration means. But if that right of administration is regulated itself by statute... My Lord, it can't be that it'll all be Muslim, Muslim, Muslim. It just simply cannot be, because after the Constitution, all the Universities have a liberal element in them. Please give representation to students, representation to teachers. All that is there, My Lords, in our