SHC restrains private schools from acting against students for non-payment of fee.

Byline: Ishaq Tanoli

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained the private schools from taking any coercive action against students over non-payment of full tuition fee.

A two-judge bench headed by Justice Nadeem Akhtar issued the restraining order till May 14 after the provincial law officer approached the court seeking modification in its earlier ad-interim order in which the bench had also suspended the second notification of provincial authorities regarding the 20 per cent concession to parents in school fees of April and May.

Sindh Advocate General Salman Talibuddin moved an application on behalf of the education authorities, who are made respondents in the petition, and sought the modification in the court's May 5 order to the effect that no coercive action should be taken by the petitioners in case of non-payment of full tuition fee by the students.

He further submitted that a similar order was also passed by the same bench on April 22 in an identical matter.

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'The request made by him appears to be reasonable. Issue notice to the petitioners. Till the next date of hearing, no coercive action shall be taken against any of the students in case of non-payment of full tuition fee,' the bench ruled.

It directed both the sides to come up on May 14 when the matter would be taken up again for hearing.

Earlier on May 5, the bench had also suspended the second notification of the provincial education authorities to provide 20pc fee concession to parents till May 14 after privately managed schools had again approached the SHC against the concession in tuition fee after their first petition was disposed of for being infructuous.

The earlier petition of the private schools against the first notification about fee concession had become infructuous since the provincial authorities had issued a new notification/special order superseding the previous one to provide concession in school fees of April and May after making amendments in the rules.

However, the petitioners again approached the SHC and challenged the special order/notification issued by the director general of the directorate of inspection/registration of private institutions on April 28 notifying the...

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