New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- In the midst of the Supreme Court's ongoing suo motu proceedings over references to "corruption in the judiciary" in a newly released NCERT textbook, a former NCERT insider has now approached the Court challenging a passage in another Class 8 book referring to a Supreme Court ruling that allegedly projects slum dwellers as encroachers of public land.
The fresh petition has been filed by a former Senior Associate Fellow of NCERT, questioning a paragraph in the textbook Social and Political Life - III, prescribed nationwide from 2007 till 2026.
The plea flags a sentence stating that "recent judgments tend to view the slum dweller as an encroacher in the city." According to the petitioner, this portrayal presents evicti...