Aligarh Muslim University has spent nearly six decades arguing about a single question: is it a "minority institution" that the Muslim community has a constitutional right to run its own way, or is it a university created by an Act of Parliament and therefore bound by ordinary rules on reservation and administration like any other central university? In late 2024, a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court answered the underlying legal question — but left AMU's own fate to be decided afresh, and that unfinished business is why commentators are now asking whether the Court should go back and review what it decided.