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MUMBAI: A petition has been filed in the Bombay high court seeking direction to the state government to withdraw geography text books in which Sindh has been replaced in the national anthem with Sindhu. These textbooks were earlier withdrawn following a serious faux pas after Arunachal Pradesh was missing from one of the maps of India. The 16.5 lakh withdrawn text books had also contained the word Sindhu instead of Sindh.
The petition has been filed by Mulund resident Dakshata Shet, through her advocate Sandesh Sawant, saying she noticed the change in the latest Class X geography textbook of Marathi medium school printed by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. "The change is also reflected in the English medium geography textbooks," Shet told TOI on Friday.
In her petition, Shet said the Supreme Court, as well as the Bombay high court, have ruled that the national anthem should not be amended even if geographical changes take place in India. "These rulings are specifically in relation to the word Sindh," the petition adds.
Observing that they find no reason to defile the original script sung since December 27, 1911 by Rabindranath Tagore, a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi on October 7, 2011 had dismissed with costs a PIL by retired professor Shreekant Malushte seeking replacement of the word Sindh with Sindhu. Malushte contended that Sindh, which is now a part of Pakistan should be replaced with Sindhu, a river in northern India. He said despite Sindh being replaced by the word Sindhu in January 1950 by the government, "the national anthem continues to be sung and broadcast in a wrong manner by using incorrect words".
The HC judges, while dismissing Malushte's petition referred to the Supreme Court's May 13, 2005 judgment in the case of Sanjeev Bhatnagar versus Union of India. They noted that the apex court, after tracing the original text of the national anthem and seeing how it was adopted, had dismissed the petition, with Rs 10,000 as cost, observing that " it is not necessary that the structure of the national anthem should go on changing as and when the territories or the internal distribution of geographical regions and provinces undergoes changes."
Shet's petition also urged the court to direct the government to reprint new textbooks with the correct national anthem and to register a cognizable offence against the concerned persons for exhibiting disrespect towards the national anthem and towards the nation as a whole.'' Sawant will mention the matter on high court's reopening on June 10, 2013 for an urgent hearing.
Petition in high court over replacement of 'Sindh' with 'Sindhu' in national anthem - The Times of India
The petition has been filed by Mulund resident Dakshata Shet, through her advocate Sandesh Sawant, saying she noticed the change in the latest Class X geography textbook of Marathi medium school printed by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. "The change is also reflected in the English medium geography textbooks," Shet told TOI on Friday.
In her petition, Shet said the Supreme Court, as well as the Bombay high court, have ruled that the national anthem should not be amended even if geographical changes take place in India. "These rulings are specifically in relation to the word Sindh," the petition adds.
Observing that they find no reason to defile the original script sung since December 27, 1911 by Rabindranath Tagore, a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi on October 7, 2011 had dismissed with costs a PIL by retired professor Shreekant Malushte seeking replacement of the word Sindh with Sindhu. Malushte contended that Sindh, which is now a part of Pakistan should be replaced with Sindhu, a river in northern India. He said despite Sindh being replaced by the word Sindhu in January 1950 by the government, "the national anthem continues to be sung and broadcast in a wrong manner by using incorrect words".
The HC judges, while dismissing Malushte's petition referred to the Supreme Court's May 13, 2005 judgment in the case of Sanjeev Bhatnagar versus Union of India. They noted that the apex court, after tracing the original text of the national anthem and seeing how it was adopted, had dismissed the petition, with Rs 10,000 as cost, observing that " it is not necessary that the structure of the national anthem should go on changing as and when the territories or the internal distribution of geographical regions and provinces undergoes changes."
Shet's petition also urged the court to direct the government to reprint new textbooks with the correct national anthem and to register a cognizable offence against the concerned persons for exhibiting disrespect towards the national anthem and towards the nation as a whole.'' Sawant will mention the matter on high court's reopening on June 10, 2013 for an urgent hearing.
Petition in high court over replacement of 'Sindh' with 'Sindhu' in national anthem - The Times of India
