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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the Supreme Court connected Friday (March 20, 2026) that erstwhile apex tribunal justice Justice Indu Malhotra and elder advocator K.K. Venugopal person agreed to beryllium portion of an adept committee to finalise the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) curricula connected Legal Studies for Class 8 and higher grades.
Editorial | Justice for all: On the NCERT textbook issue, the judiciary
Appearing earlier a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, the apical instrumentality serviceman for the Union Government orally submitted that the adept committee would collaborate/associate with retired Supreme Court Judge Aniruddha Bose, successful his capableness arsenic the Director of the National Judicial Academy, to finalise the curricula for these classes.
Chief Justice Kant orally expressed his satisfaction, stating that determination was nary amended than these jurists to usher the framing of the curriculum.
The improvement followed a March 11 bid of the Supreme Court, which had taken suo motu cognisance of a paper nonfiction that referred to a information connected “Corruption successful the Judiciary” successful a Class 8 Social Science textbook.
The Court had observed that the textbook section “The Role of the Judiciary successful our Society”, peculiarly the sub-topic expounding “Corruption successful the Judiciary”, was “prima-facie intended towards maligning the Indian judiciary”. It had initiated contempt proceedings against those down the lesson.
On February 26, the Supreme Court had ordered the “blanket and complete” ban connected the Social Science textbook contempt the Centre withdrawing implicit 82,000 copies from circulation. The Court had seen it arsenic a calculated determination to make bias against the judiciary successful the “impressionable minds” of children.
On March 11, the Court had taken beardown exception to an NCERT connection that it had “duly rewritten” the chapter.
The Court had directed that the chapter, if revised, would not beryllium published unless it was approved by a committee of domain experts. It had ordered the authorities to represent the adept committee, which would see a erstwhile elder judge, an eminent academician and a renowned practitioner successful law.
The Court had said the committee whitethorn subordinate with the National Judicial Academy to look into the program connected Legal Studies for not lone Class 8 but different Classes too.
The Court had clarified the judiciary was not averse to nonsubjective and morganatic disapproval astir its organization functioning.
“If the judiciary, similar immoderate different institution, is suffering from deficiencies and if an adept committee highlights specified deficiencies, it would beryllium a invited step, not lone for the aboriginal procreation of this nation, including the aboriginal practitioners, but it would besides unfastened an avenue for the contiguous stakeholders to instrumentality indispensable remedial steps,” the Supreme Court had underscored.
