Order on 051017
Members of Paschimi Uttar Pradesh Abhibhawak sangh Filed case(46207) in Allahabad High Court to address irregularities of private schools.
Key Pointers of Court Order:
- Court Observed that The respondent institutions being covered by the Act’ 2009 are prohibited from charging exorbitant fee for imparting education to a child, and this is a matter of serious concern for the society.
- It is submitted that on account of non payment of the illegal demand of fee by the said respondent schools the wards of the petitioners are being subjected to mental and physical harassment by the school authorities. With reference to the messages sent by the School authority appended with the present petition, it is contended that the wards of the petitioners are facing threat of expulsion from the school.
- Section 16 & 17 of RTE Act 2009 provide for prohibition of holding back and expulsion and of physical punishment or mental harassment to a child.
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