The Union government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has set up a committee that includes former Supreme Court judges to review a chapter about “corruption in the judiciary” in a textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, Live Law reported.

The committee comprises former Supreme Court judges Indu Malhotra and Aniruddha Bose, and former Attorney General KK Venugopal. Bose is the director of the National Judicial Academy.

The chapter was part of a Class 8 social science textbook. The textbook was withdrawn after the court took suo motu cognisance of the matter and banned its publication and re-printing. The educational body had on March 10 apologised for the chapter.

The chapter had listed “corruption at various levels of the judiciary” among the challenges that the judicial system faces, according to The Indian Express. It was part of a textbook titled “Exploring Society: India and Beyond”.

After Solicitor General Tushar Mehta made the submission about the committee on Friday, the bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and VM Pancholi disposed of the suo motu case, Bar and Bench reported.

The court had on March 11 said that the affidavit of the NCERT director was “disturbing” as it said that the chapter in question had been rewritten.

The Supreme Court had directed the government to create a panel of experts, preferably...

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