Overview
- Three scholars censured over a Class 8 chapter on judicial corruption filed affidavits on Monday, and the Supreme Court said it will hear their modification pleas after registry defects are cured in about two weeks.
- The academics argue the textbook was a collective product under the new National Education Policy, citing drafts shared with a Google group of more than 40 members and a development team of roughly 15 contributors.
- The Union government told the court it has formed a review panel of Justice Indu Malhotra, K. K. Venugopal and Prakash Singh that will work with the National Judicial Academy led by Justice Aniruddha Bose to clear any revised content.
- NCERT has reconstituted its high‑powered National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee through an April 2 notification, naming M. C. Pant as chair and trimming the panel to 20 members after removing three earlier appointees.
- The court had earlier banned the textbook and directed public institutions to disassociate from the three, whose lawyers say the remarks have harmed their reputations and livelihoods, even as NCERT withdrew the book and issued an apology.