Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 436 · Decided 4 October 1994
Shri Santosh Kumar and ORS. v. The Secretary, Ministry of Human Resources Development and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 436 · [1994] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 139
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 299/1989
- Decided
- 4 October 1994
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, B.L. HANSARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: A B Miele 351-Eighth Schedule-Language~nclusion of Sanskrit as C elective subject in syllabus of Central Board of Secondary Education--Court's direction regarding-Importance of Sanskrit in national ethos discussed. Secularism-Teaching of Sanskrit alone as elective of Education discussed. D In these petitions the qnestion for consideration is whether Sanskrit, which is one of the langnages specified in Eighth Schedule of the Constitu­ tion, is required to he included in the syllabus of the Central Board of Secondary Education as an
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