{"id":9695,"date":"2026-04-06T23:53:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:53:57","slug":"130073161-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9695","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary graft chapter: 3 academicians move Supreme Court against NCERT association ban | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130073172,imgsize-409624,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/image-ians.jpg\" alt=\"Judiciary graft chapter: 3 academicians move Supreme Court against NCERT association ban\" title=\"Image: IANS \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: Three academicians engaged by NCERT as experts &#8211; Prof Michel Danino, Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar &#8211; whom the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Supreme Court<\/a> banned for life &#8220;for projecting a negative image of judiciary&#8221; by mentioning about corruption in judiciary in a Class 8 textbook, approached the apex court Monday seeking a review of the order.<!-- --> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>&#8220;Class 6 and Class 7 textbooks do deal with issues&#8230; faced by legislature, Election Commission and the executive&#8230; We want to show the processes that have been followed&#8230; These are academics with a lot of credibility,&#8221; the petitioners&#8217; counsel said. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/> <\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Judiciary graft chapter: 3 academicians move SC against NCERT assn ban\" msid=\"130071253\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-130071253\/judiciary-graft-chapter-3-academicians-move-sc-against-ncert-assn-ban.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Appearing for the three, senior advocate Arvind Datar, Gopal Sankaranarayanan and Sai Deepak told the bench that the blacklisting of the academicians has grave implications and requested a bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi to urgently take up these applications for hearing.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>CJI Kant asked, \u201cAre you defending your actions?\u201d Sankaranarayanan responded by saying, \u201cWe are giving a context (to what was written in the Class VIII book). I was present when the newspaper article was mentioned before the court and told how the judiciary is being singled out (on prevalence of corruption).\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>For Danino, Datar said, \u201cThe court may consider his detailed explanation.\u201d Deepak said, \u201cIt was a collective effort, and no individual had the final say.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>SC directed the registry to list the application for hearing. It said no intervention would be permitted in this matter by others.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Appearing for education ministry, additional solicitor general K M Nataraj told the bench about the formation of two committees to scrutinise the existing syllabus to eliminate intemperate reference to judiciary in school textbooks and also to suggest a framework in consultation with National Judicial Academy.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/judiciary-graft-chapter-3-academicians-move-supreme-court-against-ncert-association-ban\/articleshow\/130073161.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Three academicians engaged by NCERT as experts &#8211; Prof Michel Danino, Suparna Diwakar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,1318,723,719,720,721,24249,24250,24248,1282,722],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-cji-surya-kant","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-judiciary-graft","tag-national-judicial-academy","tag-ncert","tag-supreme-court","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}