New Delhi: The Supreme Court has declined to entertain a public interest writ petition for a direction to the Centre, States and Union Territories to incorporate detailed life history and teachings of all the ten Sikh Gurus along with Guru Granth Saheb in syllabus of all the classes in history books for teaching.
The petitioner Subash Chander Katyal submitted that the life history of Sikh Gurus and history of Sikhs have not been given appropriate place in history books whereas there is mention of other historical personalities and different rulers.
Dismissing the PIL, a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A.M. Khanwilkar said without entering into the merits, suffice it to say that what shall be taught in the schools or what shall be included in the syllabus of all classes cannot be directed by this Court in exercise of power of judicial review and also in exercise of power relating to entertaining public interest litigation.
