SC declines plea for monitoring religious education institutions for children under 14 The Supreme Court on Monday, August 10, refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions for the registration, recognition, and monitoring of institutions that provide secular education or religious instruction to children below the age of 14.The petition was filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. It sought a regulatory mechanism for institutions that, according to the petitioner, impart religious instruction to young children without adequate registration or state supervision.The Supreme Court's...