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HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad High Court on Thursday suspended the circular issued by the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Hyderabad directing all engineering colleges to have one nominee from the university in the college selection committees which are meeting to select teaching faculty.

Justice Vilas V Afzulpurkar passed the order on a batch of writ petitions filed by Noor Engineering College and other minority institutions offering engineering courses. The interim order is limited to minority educational institutions. The counsel for the petitioner institutions said JNTU had issued a circular last week giving schedule for the process of selection to fill up the vacancies in the teaching faculty. The JNTU insisted that a nominee of the university be included in the selection committee. They reminded that such condition was termed bad by the courts earlier and the JNTU was interfering with the administration of minority institutions. This violates Article 30 of Constitution which gives freedom to minority communities to run institutions.