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A time aft the Supreme Court banned a Social Science textbook implicit a conception connected “corruption” successful the judiciary, the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) connected Friday (February 27, 2026) asked radical to instrumentality the publication and instrumentality down related societal media posts.
The NCERT reiterated that it had withdrawn the Class 8 textbook.
In its advisory issued connected Friday (February 27, 2026), the NCERT called for immoderate “individual oregon organisation” successful possession of the publication oregon immoderate worldly related to it to instrumentality it to the Publication Division of the Department of Education successful Social Sciences successful New Delhi “at the earliest possible”. Anyone who had posted immoderate worldly related to the arguable conception connected societal media oregon online should delete it, it said.
The connection was issued by the bureau of Himanshu Gupta, Secretary, NCERT, and cited the Supreme Court bid successful this regard.
Suo motu case
The Supreme Court registered a suo motu lawsuit connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026) successful narration to the conception that had appeared successful a section titled “Role of Judiciary successful Our Society”. Chief Justice Surya Kant called the conception connected “corruption” successful the judiciary a “selective reference”, portion calling for a suo motu case to beryllium registered.
On Thursday (February 26, 2026), portion proceeding the case, the Supreme Court directed that copies of the publication that had already been distributed oregon sold beryllium seized, further asking officials acrophobic to record a compliance study regarding this seizure.
Soon aft the Supreme Court heard the contented connected Wednesday, the NCERT issued a nationalist connection apologising for the “inappropriate textual material” and “error successful judgement” that had “crept into” the said textbook. A time later, arsenic the contention intensified, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan expressed regret and noted that a absorption had been issued to retreat the publication arsenic soon arsenic this worldly was noticed. Government officials claimed that the absorption was issued connected Tuesday, a time aft the publication was released.
Sources added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had besides taken announcement of the conception successful question and called for accountability to beryllium fixed. Mr. Pradhan told presspersons connected Thursday (February 25, 2026) that enactment volition beryllium taken against those recovered responsible.
