All good. Judicial corruption has been erased from NCERT Class 8 textbook
India Today
The Supreme Court ordered a ban on a Class 8 NCERT textbook that referred to corruption in the judiciary. It ordered seizure of all copies and sought minutes of the meeting of the Syllabi Board which cleared the textbook. It is believed that even PM Modi was agonised by the controversy.
In the end, it's all good. The NCERT textbook that had a reference to corruption in the judiciary in India has been erased for all practical purposes. The government was in complete unison with the Supreme Court on the issue, which had Prime Minister Narendra Modi concerned and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan expressing regret.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, ordered the seizure of all copies of the book, physical and digital. It ordered that the books whether in retail stores or in NCERT stock godowns be immediately recovered and digital copies taken down from all platforms. It also directed the Union government to make sure that no schools or teachers used the impunged book to teach.
The book in question is NCERT's Social Science textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond, Vol II, for Class 8. In Chapter 4 on 'The Role of Judiciary in Our Society', a sub-section crossheaded 'Corruption in the Judiciary' was brought to the notice of Supreme Court judges by lawyers, including senior advocates Kapil Sibal and AM Singhvi, on Wednesday. Chief Justice Kant mentioned that he had already initiated action on Tuesday itself through the Registrar (more on that in just a bit).
The bench led by CJI Kant initiated a suo motu case on Wednesday and posted it for hearing Thursday. But made its extreme displeasure known Wednesday itself: "I will not allow anyone on the earth to taint the integrity and defame the entire institution," the CJI said as the move appeared to be a "calculated measure".
Sensing the Supreme Court's extreme displeasure, NCERT immediately issued an apology, and announced the withdrawal of the textbooks from stores and blocked the digital version on its website.
"The aforesaid error is purely unintentional and NCERT regrets the inclusion of inappropriate material in the said chapter," the NCERT, led by Dinesh Prasad Saklani, said in a statement.
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