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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

SC called upon to rename India as Bharat/Hindustan; sends it to Centre

A bench of CJI S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy asked how the court could change the name from India to Bharat/Hindustan and pointed out that Article 1 of the Constitution provides that India would also be known as Bharat. But petitioner Namah's counsel Raj Kishor Choudhary said 'India' was of Greek origin, and hence must be discarded.

from Times of India https://ift.tt/3gOMkEF

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