nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/f991707ca2899a1b DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260312s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/f991707ca2899a1b doi eng 342 23 Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 When the Protector Becomes the Prosecutor - The Indian Supreme Court’s NCERT Affair Jain, Anmol Verfassungsblog 2026-03-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 26 February 2026, the Supreme Court of India, acting on its own motion (suo motu) and without any petitioner before it, issued a remarkable order. It banned a Class 8 social science textbook published by the National Council for Educational Research and Training, directed the physical seizure of all copies in circulation, ordered the removal of the book from every digital platform, threatened its authors with criminal contempt proceedings, and barred classroom instruction based on its contents — all in response to a chapter that described corruption in the judiciary and case backlogs as institutional challenges. CC BY-SA 4.0 Indian Supreme Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-indian-supreme-courts-ncert-affair/ raw object