New Delhi, May 22 -- The Supreme Court has assured the three academicians who were behind the controversial, now removed sub-chapter in the Class Eight NCERT textbook "Corruption in Indian Judiciary", that it will delete certain observations against the academicians which attributed malicious intent onto them for preparing the said content along with those which said that no academic institution would engage them for their services.

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi clarified that the Court's observations in the suo moto case initiated by the Court subsequent to the inclusion of the controversial chapter in the textbook were against the controversial "content" and not against any "individual"....