New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday said there is “no fire” in a plea seeking urgent hearing on an ongoing case related to the alleged morphing of a photograph of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Najma Heptulla in a book published on the country’s first education minister.
“This matter can wait and be heard later,” Justice Rajiv Shakdher said, adding that “there is no fire in this matter that it should be heard urgently.”
The court’s oral observation came during hearing of the plea moved by Azad’s grandnephew, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, who has alleged that the morphing of the photograph was done at the instance of Heptulla when she was heading the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).
The controversial photograph showing Azad sitting with Heptulla after her graduation was published in an ICCR publication titled, ‘Journey of a Legend, on the life of India’s first Education Minister’. The publication was later withdrawn by ICCR.
