New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) asking for a section of the Class 12 NCERT history textbook to be removed. The section talks about how Mughal rulers Aurangzeb and Shah Jahan had given grants for temples to be repaired.
Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh came down heavily on the petitioners, saying they were attempting to waste the court’s time. “You are saying you have a problem with the fact that Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb had no such policy for giving the grants for temple repair etc? We are unable to decide the present policies of Centre and State and you are talking about some errors committed by Shah Jahan. This is a waste of time of court. These types of PILs are only filed in Delhi High Court. People think the High Court has such free time,” Chief Justice Patel said, according to Bar and Bench.
The bench also talked about imposing costs on the petitioners for filing a frivolous lawsuit, but stopped after it was told that the petitioners weer students. “You people have such free time. You have deliberately made the students as petitioners. Seems like you guys sleep at night and file PIL on whatever issues that comes to your mind,” the chief justice said.
The court then allowed the petitioners to withdraw the application.