Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Gujarat High Court will on Wednesday decide on whether the state government's move to ban Jaswant Singh's book Jinnah: India-Partition, Independence is legal or not.
On the other hand the government is seeking time to issue a fresh notification, suggesting that the original notification may not stand legal scrutiny.
The Supreme Court has also issued a notice to the Gujarat government asking it why the ban on Jaswant's should not be lifted even as Ahmedabad the state government has filed an affidavit in the Gujarat High Court saying it wants to issue a fresh ban notification superseding its earlier notification.
The petitioners against the ban say this is because the government found something wrong with the original notification.
"The state government asking for more time to file fresh notification means there is some lacunae with the present notification. That's moral victory for us," says petitioner Prakash Shah.
Gujarat government's earlier notification says that the Jinnah: India-Partition, Independence has been banned because it is against national interests.
The notification, however, does not say how it came to this opinion.
"We believe that the request of the State of Gujarat to come out with a new notification and indirectly permit the old notification to continue, has been turned down," says Anand Yagnik, advocate for the petitioners.
A Gujarat High Court three-judge Special Bench headed by Chief Justice KS Radhakrishnan and including justices Akil Kureshi and KM Thaker is likely to pronounce its order on Wednesday.
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