Overview

• Chief Justice Arun Palli, Justice Rajnesh Oswal and Justice Shahzad Azeem heard consolidated petitions and refused interim relief, leaving the forfeiture order in force.
• The bench fixed December 4 for a final hearing and declined to entertain a PIL, observing that most people would not understand the issue.
• Petitioners including Kapil Kak, Sumantra Bose, Radha Kumar, Wajahat Habibullah, David Devadas and M.Y. Tarigami argue the order is arbitrary and unreasoned for not identifying specific passages.
• The Home Department cites youth radicalisation, glorification of terrorism and vilification of security forces as grounds, while reports differ on whether the action invokes BNSS Section 98 or CrPC Section 95.
• The list covers works by prominent authors such as A.G. Noorani and Arundhati Roy, with many titles from Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press and Routledge.