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Landmark JudgmentKarnataka High Court, Bengaluru

Karnataka HC dismisses Vande Mataram PIL: an MHA advisory using 'may' is directory, not mandatory

On 9 April 2026 a Karnataka High Court division bench led by Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru dismissed a PIL against the MHA's 'Vande Mataram' school-recitation advisory as premature, holding that the advisory's permissive 'may' formulation, absence of penal consequence, and lack of any actual coercive enforcement against the petitioner left no live constitutional grievance to adjudicate.

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