Controversy
The selection process was challenged under the Right to Information Act in the Delhi High Court. The petitioner, Rakesh Kumar, who was a participant in the competition, described the process as "full of discrepancies" and "flawed", and named the Finance Ministry and the chairman of Indian Rupee Symbol Selection Committee as respondents.
On 26 November 2010, the Delhi High single bench Court dismissed the writ petition, stating there was no justifiable ground for the stated allegations. But on 31 March 2011, Chief Justice and Justice Sanjiv Khanna of Delhi High Court in their judgment court allowed RTI activist Rakesh Kumar Singh to file PIL against “Indian Rupee symbol selection process”.
According to Guideline No. 5 of the contest process, submitted symbols were required to be "in the Indian National Language Script or a visual representation". It has been argued that this violates the Constitution of India, because that does not specify any particular Indian Language Script as the Indian National Language Script.
On April 25, 2012 Delhi High court issues notice to government of India over rupee and other symbols selection process.On July 11, 2012 in court hearing Government of India (MHA) did not respond to the serious charges made in PIL.After that Hon'ble Delhi High Court slams MHA for failing to respond and asked government to respond with in four weeks, in next hearing dated on 22 August 2012.
In its October 3, 2012 order hon'ble High Court said "last opportunity is granted to the respondent to file the counter affidavit. Let the same be filed within six weeks."
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