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Education -Instructions of Medium only in mother tongue or Kannada - constitutional court declared as un constitutional - Karnataka govt. Medium of Instruction - Govt. issued Order dt . 29.04.1994 imposing mother tongue or Kannada only from 1st stand. to IV th stand. permission was given only to English mother tongue student to shift to English medium after V th stand. - Constitutional court Declared as invalid - We accordingly hold that State has no power under Article 350A of the Constitution to compel the linguistic minorities to choose their mother tongue only as a medium of instruction in primary schools.= State of Karnataka & Anr. … Appellants Versus Associated Management of (Government Recognised – Unaided – English Medium) Primary & Secondary Schools & Ors. … Respondents =2014 ( May.Part) http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/filename=41504