Naima Khatoon has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), making her the first woman to hold the top post in over 100 years, sources said on Monday.
Grappling with the intractable issue of Aligarh Muslim University's minority status, the Supreme Court said the 1981 amendment to the AMU Act only did a "half-hearted job" and not restore to the institution the position it had prior to 1951.
The bench, which also comprised Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Surya Kant, J B Pardiwala, Dipankar Datta, Manoj Misra and Satish Chandra Sharma, said the government has the option of taking the amendment route and amend the law again