HC bins PIL seeking ban on book claiming Goddess Gayatri is fictitious

Prayagraj: Allahabad High Court has dismissed a PIL seeking ban on the printing, publication, distribution and circulation of a textbook "Tathakathit Gayatri Devi Mantra Ki Vastavikta" (Reality of Gayatri Mantra).
The PIL claimed that the textbook written by Sant Gyaneshwar Swami Sadanand Ji Paramhans argues that Goddess Gayatri, the personified form of the Gayatri Mantra, a popular hymn from Vedic texts, is ‘kalpanik' (fictitious).
The book has claimed that fake and imaginary pictures and idols of the so-called Gayatri Devi have been created to mislead the religiously inclined people, the PIL state..
Dismissing the PIL filed by Satya Sanatan Dharm Dharmatma Kalyan Samiti, a bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra in its March 12 order noted that the petitioner's another plea for a similar cause had been dismissed as infructuous in 2016. So PIL with similar cause cannot be entertained again, the bench added.
The PIL submitted that the private respondents (including the publishers of the book) made derogatory remarks about ‘Gayatri Mantra' and committed the deformation in this regard by publishing the said book.The PIL further alleged that the book in question, excerpts of which were attached with the PIL, states that Gayatri is neither a goddess nor a mantra but merely a verse.