BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday refused to vacate its April 24 interim order directing primary schools to admit students only in the medium of instruction in which the institutions were permitted to impart education.

The court passed this order on an interlocutory application by the Karnataka State Private Schools Managements Federation for modifying the interim order.

In its application, the federation claimed that the interim order is not in conformity with the order of the Full Bench.

The federation said that on Thursday last a single judge had stayed the de-recognition of schools and directed primary schools to admit students to the medium of instruction in which the schools were permitted to open.

The application had initially come up before a single judge on Tuesday who refused to modify it stating that it ought to come up before the regular court hearing education matters.

The application was posted for hearing before Justice Rammohan Reddy. While the federation urged the court to modify the interim order, the Government opposed it.

Mr. Rammohan Reddy said there is no ground to vacate the interim order and called upon member-schools of the federation to file affidavits by June 1 on the medium of instruction in which they had been permitted to impart education (on Tuesday, the court directed 1,100 schools coming under Karnataka Private Schools Managements Association to file such affidavits).

Stayed

In another case, Mr. Rammohan Reddy stayed the order of de-recognition of two institutions of Kolar — Jeevan Deepika Educational Trust and Core-In- Cooperation. The institutions claimed that it was the right of the parents to decide on the choice of medium of instruction for their children. Therefore, the State, they said, could not claim any right in this regard.

Mr. Rammohan Reddy adjourned the case to June 1 and directed the institutions to file affidavits on the medium of instruction in which they were teaching students.

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