A legal notice has been sent to remove ‘Sharifa Ki Kahani’ from Class VII History and Social Science textbooks. Supreme Court lawyer Mahmudul Hasan sent this legal notice on Thursday.
The notice named the Secretary of the Education Ministry and the Chairman of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) as respondents.
According to the legal notice, ‘Sharifa’s Story’, a Class 7 history and social science book, states that Sharif Ahmed is physically a boy but thinks he is a girl. So she changed her name to Sharifa. Here it is accepted that there has been no physical change in Sharif Ahmed; Only mentally, she thinks she is a girl.