When the Protector Becomes the Prosecutor - The Indian Supreme Court’s NCERT Affair Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 Text xx# 2026 Verfassungsblog 2026-03-12 eng
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 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 Jain, Anmol Indian Supreme Court 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-indian-supreme-courts-ncert-affair/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/f991707ca2899a1b 260312 10.59704/f991707ca2899a1b Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)