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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the Directorate of Education of the Delhi Government, and the Shri Ram Education Trust over alleged closure of the 80-year-old Commercial Primary School at Charkhewalan in the Walled City of Delhi and building of a commercial complex in its place. Taking suo motu note of a news item published in an English daily here, Justice Vikramjit Sen directed the respondents to file replies to the notices by August 25. When the builder started construction on the ground floor of the school two months ago, the school authorities sent a complaint to the MCD Commissioner but so far the local body had taken no action, the report said. According to the report, the prestigious Lady Shri Ram College started from the premises of this very school. The Shri Ram Education Trust later handed over the management of the school to Kolkata-based Jagodia Trust, which had recently decided to close down it, the report stated. Quoting the alumni association of the school, the report stated that the trustees and the builder seemed to have found it mutually beneficial to shut down the school for good. It was not the first attempt to grab the school land. Earlier, a fictitious organisation called "Mohalla Sudhar Samiti" was floated and an attempt was made in connivance with certain officials of the Corporation to get a certificate from the local body to the effect that the building was unsafe but a timely intervention by the alumni saved it, the report stated. The Education Department of the Corporation had also supported the stand of the school at that time and declared the building safe, the report further stated. Counsel for the Corporation, Anoop Bagai, received the High Court notice on behalf of the local body.
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