India, March 12 -- At least one of the people involved in preparing a controversial chapter on the judiciary in a now-withdrawn Class 8 social science textbook holds law degrees from prestigious institutions and served as panel counsel for the Union of India in the apex court, while the others have long been associated with academic and curriculum development work at the national and state-level institutions.

The Supreme Court observed on Wednesday that professor Michel Danino, educator Suparna Diwakar and legal researcher Alok Prasanna Kumar "do not have any reasonable knowledge about the Indian judiciary" or they "deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the facts in order to project a negative image of the Indian judiciary before stu...