The Supreme Court issued notice on Tuesday to the Delhi University Vice-Chancellor on a petition seeking a directive to place before the University's Academic Council the views of an expert committee the university constituted to go into the allegations of distortion and derogatory portrayal of characters in the Ramayana book prescribed for B.A. History (Honours).
A Bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and Anil R. Dave issued the notice on the petition filed by Dina Nath Batra and others, including lecturers, a former Ambassador, a Pro-Vice Chancellor, a principal and a journalist, who in 2008 questioned the prescription for the course of Three Hundred Ramayanas, written by A.K. Ramanujan and which contained �derogatory and objectionable references� to Hanuman, Lakshmana and Sita.