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Court orders de-sealing of Delhi school

Relief for 2,000 children till the end of the current academic year

NEW DELHI: Providing relief to 2,000 students of an East Delhi school, the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed de-sealing of the school premises till the end of the current academic year after receiving an undertaking from the society running the school.

Vanasthali Public School at Madhu Vihar in Patparganj area of East Delhi was sealed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi after the Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee reported that the All India Digamber Jain Society was running the school on encroached public land.

``In view of the CBSE board examinations, an undertaking given by the management of the school that it will abide by the Court's direction, we direct the MCD to de-seal the premises till April 10, 2007,'' ordered a Bench of Chief Justice Y. K. Sabharwal, Justice C. K. Thakker and Justice R. V. Raveendran on Tuesday.

The Court also stayed contempt proceedings in the Delhi High Court against the MCD, initiated on a petition by the school management after the civic body went ahead with the sealing of the premises despite a High Court order prohibiting it.

The MCD had sealed the premises on the basis of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee's report.

The Court had directed that schools operating from the encroached land would not be allowed to continue and would have to be sealed forthwith. The Monitoring Committee in its report had said that the students could be shifted to another school run by the society for which land was allocated to it. The Court, however, said shifting of the students to another branch would affect their studies. Meanwhile, the Court has also directed de-sealing of the guesthouses of nationalised banks, PSUs and private sector organisations that are generally used as transit homes. - PTI.

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