In Brief
A practising advocate filed a Public Interest Writ under Article 32, seeking a court order to make moral science a compulsory subject in schools (classes I–XII) to combat what she saw as eroding moral values in society. She argued this was a constitutional obligation and that its omission violated fundamental rights under Articles 25 and 51A. The Supreme Court dismissed the petition, holding that while moral values in education are important, decisions on curriculum design, pedagogy, and how to balance competing educational values are matters of policy for educators and government—not for courts to mandate through judicial orders. The Court noted that such complex issues involving ideology, social theory and pedagogy lack judicially manageable standards and fall outside the scope of Article 32 jurisdiction.
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