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The Supreme Court on Friday imposed an interim stay on Allahabad High Court's order quashing Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 after the high court deemed it as unconstitutional"..
Last month, Allahabad High Court had asked UP government to accommodate the current students of the Madarsa board into formal schooling system, however, while imposing the stay, the apex court stopped this relocation...
Enacted in 2004, the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act's purpose was to streamline madrassa education, defining it as education in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Islamic studies, Tibb (traditional medicine), philosophy and other specified branches..
The Allahabad High Court struck down the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004 saying it was "unconstitutional" and violative of the principle of secularism...
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