HC dismisses plea on making national anthem compulsory in courts

HC dismisses plea on making national anthem compulsory in courts LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Wednesday refused to accept a plea that chanting of the national anthem should be made compulsory in every court. A bench of Justice AP Sahi and Justice Sanjai Harkauli said that it would issue a detailed order on February 3. The bench turned down repeated requests of the petitioner to allow him to place his plea before the Supreme Court and not dismiss the PIL. Petitioner SK Gupta had demanded that the national anthem must be made compulsory in courts.Advocate for high court administration UN Mishra apprised the bench that the same plea had gone to the Supreme Court earlier without finding favour and hence was not maintainable.