BENGALURU: The schools run by Baldwin Methodist Education Society have got a big relief from Karnataka High Court on Wednesday. Hearing two petitions filed by the society, Justice Aravind Kumar stayed certain directives issued by Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, including its recommendation to the state government to withdraw the No Objection Certificate (NoC) given to one of its schools.
On June 15, the commission had directed DDPI (South) to withdraw NoC issued to the schools and inform ICSE that the syllabus change is without permission.While passing the interim order of the stay, the court issued notice to the respondent authorities, including commission, Deputy Director of Public Instruction and the block education officials.
The court stayed directives issued by the commission on June 11 that a case be registered against the school with the cyber crime police for allegedly leaking data of students and parents. The court also passed an interim order staying the commission’s directive for studying impact of weight of books on students.
Baldwin Methodist Education Society has contended that the commission ought to have appreciated the fact that if the NoC was withdrawn, education of 12,000 students would be disturbed. Moreover, the “historic reputation of the petitioner” would be tarnished despite there being no fault of theirs.
The petitioner society said the complainant Murali K, a bookseller to the schools, was aggrieved by restrictions of vendors in school premises as he suffered huge loss. As the management did not heed to his blackmailing tactics, Murali harassed the principal and staff of Baldwin.