Bengaluru college fined Rs 1 lakh for stopping college students from attending courses

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Bengaluru school fined Rs 1 lakh for preventing students from attending classes

BENGALURU: The Excessive Courtroom of Karnataka fined a Bengaluru college Rs 1 lakh for not permitting greater than 50 college students to attend courses and for failing to submit an enterprise and paying a high quality of Rs 10,000 for having “indulged in behaviour that goes towards the ethos of the varsity.” On Friday, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Krishan S Dixit said that it was not involved with whether or not the varsity’s demand was correct or not, but it surely was involved that class 9 college students weren’t allowed to attend courses.
“Within the current education sample, ninth class is necessary as it’s a yr earlier than Class 10, a serious stage,” the Courtroom mentioned.
The Division Bench was listening to a civil contempt of courtroom filed by the daddy of one of many college students of the Brigade Faculty, in Brigade Gateway Enclave, Malleshwaram.
The mum or dad had filed a petition on December 4, 2023 stating that the varsity had issued a communication on November 22, 2023 alleging that this daughter was indulging in behaviour that went towards the ethos of the varsity and with out concluding an enquiry, imposed a high quality of Rs 10,000 “failing which severe penalties follows.”
The petition claimed that “the respondents are insisting the petitioner pay high quality failing which the respondents won’t permit the daughter to attend courses.”
The only choose bench in its interim order on December 6, stayed the operation of the varsity’s discover and directed it to allow the scholar to attend courses.
On December 22, the mum or dad once more approached the HC with a contempt petition stating that the varsity, regardless of the order of the only choose bench, was not permitting his daughter to attend courses.
The courtroom was knowledgeable that greater than 50 different college students had been additionally equally not allowed to attend courses.
The counsel for the varsity submitted that the scholar was allowed to attend courses after the courtroom order was acquired by it on December 14.
It was additionally submitted that the scholar might be supplied with extra courses.
Nonetheless, contemplating that uncertainty was created and the education of the kids had been affected, the HC imposed a price of Rs one lakh on the varsity which is to be payable to the Chief Minister’s Aid Fund inside two weeks.