From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL by retired Gujarat IAS officer K G Vanzara to declare Sanskrit as the national language, saying the right forum to raise the issue is Parliament and not the court. “Why should we issue notice to declare for publicity. but the right forum to debate it is Parliament since it needs amenendment to the Constitution since it is a matter of policy which we can’t change,” observed a bench of Justices M R Shah and Krishna Murari. “We refuse to entertain the petition. Dismissed. Counsel at liberty to make appropriate representation before concerned authorities,” the Court ordered. In the plea, the petitioner, who is now a practising lawyer, stated that such a move will not disturb the current Constitutional provisions which provide for English and Hindi as official languages of the country.
