Acting tough against three experts involved in drafting of a controversial chapter in NCERT’s class 8 social science book containing “offending” contents on corruption in the judiciary, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre and all state governments to disassociate from them.
The apex court directed the Centre to constitute a committee of domain experts within a week for the purpose of finalising the curriculum of NCERT’s legal studies of not only class 8 but higher classes also.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant was informed that the chapter was drafted by the textbook development team under the chairmanship of professor Michel Danino and consisting of members Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar.
“At the outset, we have no reason to doubt that professor Michel Danion and his associates Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar either do not have reasonable informed knowledge with respect to Indian judiciary and/or they deliberately and knowingly misrepresent