Supreme Court Audio Transcript

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minority. At a certain level what happens when a statute takes over an erstwhile institution, whether it's a school, a college, and gives it a statutory form, this statute really converts it into a body corporate. Because what was erstwhile maybe just a society, governed by the society's Registration Act, is now given the statutory character of a body corporate with a permanent seal and permanent succession. Does that conversion of a society into a body corporate, so to speak under the provisions of the Act, deprive it of its minority character or is that merely only a matter of form, to convert the form, which was a society into a body corporate? Or does that change in form completely destroy the minority character of the institution? Our respectful submission is, it is a mandatory form My Lord, that is... [NO AUDIO] [INAUDIBLE] [UNCLEAR] Now My Lords, this is a fundamental question that Your Lordship has to resolve. Azeez Basha says, universities can be minority