38 writers returned their Akademi awards, HC told

The Centre on Monday informed the Delhi high court that 38 writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards in protest against the Akademi’s alleged “indifference” over the murder of its member and author MM Kalburgi. The submission was made before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, which was hearing the plea to frame guidelines that if Sahitya Akademi awardees return their awards, they should also return the prize money and royalties they may have earned through sale of their books.