The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a PIL looking for deletion of a paragraph from the Class XII NCERT historical past textbook that referred to Mughal emperors Aurangzeb and Shah Jahan.
A division bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh termed the petition as a waste of the courtroom’s time and warned of dismissal with value. It was later withdrawn by the petitioner after the courtroom expressed its robust disapproval in opposition to the PIL.
“You are saying that you have a problem that Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb had no such policy for giving grants for temple repairs etc.,” the bench mentioned. “We are unable to determine the current insurance policies of the central and state governments and you’re speaking about a few of the insurance policies of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb. You need us to determine in regards to the insurance policies of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb? Will the High Court determine?”
The courtroom noticed that the PILs are being filed in a haphazard method and the petitioner, because the “champion of PIL”, ought to file the petitions regarding tax evasion.
The guide – Topics in Indian History – Part II – says that every one the Mughal emperors gave grants for the development and upkeep of locations of worship. It refers back to the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb and states that even when the temples had been destroyed throughout the wars, grants had been issued for his or her repairs. It was argued earlier than the courtroom that the declare made within the guide was not factual.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
