SC lifts ban on experts behind ‘judicial corruption’ chapter in NCERT book, deletes adverse comments
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The Supreme Court on Friday withdrew its order barring three academics from all government projects for drafting a chapter about “corruption in the judiciary” in a now-withdrawn textbook, Live Law reported.
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A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi modified the “harsh” observations made in the March 11 order, The Hindu reported.
The bench said that while it stands by its position “that the curriculum contained in the Class 8 National Council of Educational Research and Training textbook was wholly undesirable and unnecessary”, it was withdrawing its directions after receiving an explanation from the three academics, Bar and Bench reported.
The chapter in question was part of a Class 8 social science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training. The chapter had listed “corruption at various levels of the judiciary” among the challenges that the judicial system faces. It was part of a textbook titled “Exploring Society: India and Beyond”.
The educational body on March 10 apologised for the chapter, and said that the entire book had been withdrawn. The apology came two weeks after the court took suo motu cognisance of the matter and banned the publication and re-printing of the textbook.
On Friday, the court expressed satisfaction that there was no malice on part of Michel Danino, Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar in preparing the chapter,...