Parmod KumarNew Delhi, May 22 -- The Supreme Court on Friday recalled its earlier direction effectively blacklisting three academicians associated with drafting a controversial section on "corruption in judiciary" in the NCERT Class VIII textbook chapter "The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society", while also withdrawing its observation that they had deliberately misrepresented facts.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi modified its March 11 order and deleted the direction asking the union government, States, universities, and educational institutions to disassociate themselves from Professor Michel Danino, Suparna Diwakar, and Alok Prasanna Kumar or refrain from engaging them in academic...