Minister Made No Statement Against 'Hindi': Karnataka High Court Slaps ₹1Lakh Cost On PIL Against SSLC Exam Grading Policy

The Karnataka High Court today imposed ₹1 lakh costs on a PIL litigant for wrongly claiming that the State Education Minister, through a policy prescribing grading system for third language SSLC exam (including Hindi), was "doing away" with Hindi language.Pointing towards sensitivity of the matter, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M Poonacha orally...