A P CHRISTIANS MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY ALICE MANORANJANI M Vs. GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH:GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) A brazen and bizarre exploitation of the naive and foolish, eager and ready-to-be-duped, aspirants for admission to professional collegiate courses, behind the smoke screen of the right of the minorities to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice is what this case is about. A society styling itself as the 'Andhra Pradesh Christian Medical Educational Society' was registered on 31/08/1984. The first of the objectives mentioned in the memorandum of association of the society was, "to establish, manage and maintain educational and other institutions and impart education and training at all stages, primary, secondary, collegiate, Post-graduate and doctoral, as a Christian Minorities' Educational Institution" Another object was "to promote, establish, manage and maintain Medical Colleges, Engineering colleges, Pharmacy colleges, Commerce, Literature, Arts and sciences and Management colleges and colleges in other subjects and to promote allied activities for diffusion of useful knowledge and training." Other objects were also mentioned in the Memorandum of Association. All that is necessary to mention here is that none of the objects, apart from the first extracted object, had anything to do with any minority. Even the first mentioned object did not specify or elucidate what was meant by the statement that education and training at all stages was proposed to be imparted in the institutions of that society "as Christian Minorities Educational Institutions. Apparently the words "as a Christian minorities' educational institutions" were added in order to enable the society to claim the rights guaranteed by Art. 30(1) of the Constitution and for no other purpose. This will become clearer and clearer as we narrate further facts.

(2.) IT is also worthy of note that neither the memorandum of association nor the articles of association make any reference to any amount of corpus with which the society and. the institutions proposed to be founded by it were to be financed initially. IT was admitted before us in answer to a question by us to the learned counsel for the appellant-society that the society had no funds of its own apart from what was collected from the students.

(3.) THE cost of equipment for pre-paraclinical is Rs. 1 crore and recurring expenditure on the pre-and Paraclinical staff is Rs. 24.00 lakhs p.a.