New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 11) directed the Union government and all state governments to disassociate with the experts who were involved in drafting of a chapter in the class eight social science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) which included references to “corruption in judiciary”, reported Press Trust if India.On Wednesday, a bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant and also comprising Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi was informed that the chapter was drafted by the textbook development team under the chairmanship of professor Michel Danino and consisting of members Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar.“At the outset, we have no reason to doubt that professor Michel Danion and his associates Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar either do not have reasonable informed knowledge with respect to Indian judiciary and/or they deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the facts in order to project a negative image of Indian judiciary before the students of class 8…,” said the court.Thereafter, it directed the Union government, state governments and Union Territories, universities, and public institutions receiving government funds to “disassociate three of them forthwith and not to assign any responsibility which incur fully or partially public funds”.On February 26, the top court had imposed a complete ban on the class eight social science textbook containing the controversial chapter and issued show-cause notices to the secretary of school education in the Union Ministry of Education and the NCERT director.The apex court had said it would consider whether action under the Contempt of Courts Act or other laws should follow if the publication was found to be a deliberate attempt to scandalise the judiciary.The bench also directed the Centre to constitute a committee of domain experts within a week for finalising the curriculum of NCERT’s legal studies of not only class 8 but higher classes as well, reported PTI.