Karnataka high court on Tuesday directed the government to notify Karnataka right to free and compulsory education rules within two months.

When the PIL filed by a Bangalore-based teacher Susheela and an NGO came for hearing before chief justice J S Khehar and Ashok B Inchegiri, the court after taking a serious note of the delay in notification of the said rules by the state government, directed the government advocate to take instruction from the government and report to the court.

When the matter was taken up after an interval of 15 minutes, the government advocate submitted that rules will be notified within a month.

The court however, granted two months time to the government to notify the said rules.

The right to free and compulsory education act came into force on April 1, 2010. Despite the state government framing the draft rules way back in June 2010, the rules were not notified

He was deposing in a case related to the killing of six persons by a mob allegedly instigated by former Outer Delhi MP Sajjan Kumar and five other accused including Balwan Khokkar, Kishan Khokkar, Mahender Yadav, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal.

He also said Pangarkar was only making inquiries from him and he had not recorded his statement.

Rejecting the suggestion that he was deposing falsely in the court under Kumar's pressure, Khanna said "it is incorrect to suggest that I am a procured witness and that I am deposing falsely under the influence of Sajjan Kumar and local Congress leader Balwan Khokkar."

Kumar is facing trial along with five others on the charge of inciting mobs against the Sikh community and having six of them killed in Delhi Cantonment area during the riots that followed the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.

The case against Kumar was registered in 2005 on a recommendation by Justice G T Nanavati Commission. CBI had filed two charge sheets against him and others in January last year.

The trial court had in May, 2010, framed charges against Kumar and five others under Sections 302 (murder), 395 (dacoity), 427 (mischief to cause damage to property), 153A (promoting enmity between different communities) and other provisions of IPC.