India, Aug. 5 -- "Heavens will not fall" if all six stanzas of Vande Mataram are sung across madrasas, the Calcutta High Court remarked on Tuesday.

The court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging a West Bengal government notification making the rendition of the complete national song mandatory in such institutions, Live Law reported.

A bench, comprising of Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen, made the observation during the hearing of a PIL being argued by Senior Advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya.

Addressing the concerns raised over the recitation of Vande Mataram, the Acting Chief Justice questioned whether merely uttering a verse or quote from another religion would affect ...