The Delhi High Court today said the admission of the last student in the coming academic year to the nursery class of prestigious Sanskriti school here would be provisional and subject to the decision on a plea challenging its reservation policy.
Justice Manmohan directed the school to inform the last student who will be admitted, by draw of lots or any other method, that his or her admission would be subject to the court's order.
The order came after the petitioner's lawyer Akhil Sachar said that despite the high court's direction to the Centre and Delhi government to file their counter affidavits, it has not been done till date and pleaded for an interim protection.
"Last person admitted shall be informed that his/her admission would be provisional in nature and subject to final outcome of the court's order," the court said, adding that it cannot, as an interim measure, stop the admission process or reserve a single seat for the petitioner's daughter.
The court was hearing the plea of Dheeraj Kumar Singh, the lawyer-father of a three-year-old girl, who has challenged an order of the Lt Governor that allows the school to reserve 60 per cent of its seats for children of bureaucrats.
Meanwhile, the school, in its counter affidavit placed before the court, has opposed the plea saying there are various other government funded schools -- Air Force School, Army School, Kendra Vidyalayas -- which too provide such reservation and these institutions have not been made a party in the case.
It has contended that it was set up with a view to admit wards of All India Services officers who are often transferred to Delhi in mid-academic session of their children who need to be admitted in a good institution.
The school has said that even before the LG's order or the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act came into force, the institution has been providing 60 per cent reservation in favor of the wards of bureaucrats.
