The Kerala High Court on Friday clarified that it did not make any observation or express any opinion against the State government on the issue of printing of textbooks last week as reported by the media.
Justice K. Vinod Chandran observed that the report of the so-called observations which were not made by the court had unnecessarily put government pleaders on the dock.
The court said that the fourth estate in a democracy was a powerful tool to “mobilise public opinion, keep it smouldering, stoke it and even ignite it. But it will not be proper to provoke the court into making an opinion or statement,”
The court observed that observations and opinions expressed by the court during the course of arguments, was only an attempt to understand the issue. The prospects of such observations being reported as definitive opinion of the court, often stifles an open discussion at the time of argument.— Special Correspondent
