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The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) closed the Khalsa Boys Primary School, which received a 95% grant from the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), without obtaining prior approval under Rule 46 of the Delhi School Education Rules. NDMC consequently stopped the grant and later paid …
Gajanand Sharma, an employee of Aadarsh Siksha Parishad Samiti, was terminated after a departmental enquiry under the Rajasthan Non‑Governmental Educational Institutions Act, 1989. The Rajasthan Educational Institutions Tribunal set aside the termination, holding that prior approval of the Director …
The appeal concerned Sunil Sikri, a former teacher of Guru Harkrishan Public School, who challenged a Tribunal order directing his reinstatement with 50% back wages. The key issues were whether Sections 8 and 11 of the Delhi School Education Act, 1973 empower the Tribunal to award back wages, …
The appellant school appointed the first respondent as a teacher on a one‑year probation on 1 July 2008. The probation was extended twice, allowing her to serve as a probationer for nearly five years before she was discharged on 30 June 2013. The Delhi High Court held that the continuation of …
The respondent, a teacher appointed on probation at a privately managed primary school, sought approval of her appointment and later challenged her suspension and termination, which were effected without a departmental enquiry. The High Court initially dismissed her writ on the ground that the …
The appellant, a permanent driver at DAV Public School, was declared surplus and retrenched by the school’s Managing Committee in 2003. The school served a notice under Section 25F(a) of the Industrial Disputes Act but failed to send the statutory notice to the appropriate government authority under …
The Sindhi Education Society, a linguistic minority school in Delhi, challenged a 1989 government circular that made reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in teaching posts a condition for receiving grant‑in‑aid under Rule 64(1)(b) of the Delhi School Education Rules, 1973. The …
The Action Committee of unaided private schools challenged the Director of Education's (DOE) directions that fees and funds must be used strictly according to Rule 177 and that no amount could be transferred to the managing society or trust. The petitions argued that the DOE lacked authority under …
The appellant Kendriya Vidyalaya denied admission to Saurabh Chaudhary for class XI because his Class X CBSE marks fell below the cut‑off prescribed in the school’s admission guidelines, and offered him a place in another Central School. The student challenged the denial, invoking the Supreme …
The petitioners, an unaided school governed by the Delhi School Education Act, challenged the Election Commission’s practice of deploying teachers from government schools for election‑related duties during school hours, alleging that it disrupted education and violated the right to education. The …
The case concerned a Sanskrit teacher who resigned from Modern School on 17‑03‑1997. The school’s managing committee accepted the resignation on 19‑03‑1997, subject to the Director of Education’s approval, which was not received within the statutory 30‑day period, thereby deemed approved under …
A group of teachers from a recognized private unaided school filed a writ petition under Article 226 seeking a mandamus directing the school to implement the Third Pay Commission's salary recommendations with retrospective effect. The single judge of the Calcutta High Court granted the relief, but …
The Management Committee of Montfort Senior Secondary School terminated Assistant Teacher Vijay Kumar on disciplinary grounds. Kumar appealed the termination to the Delhi School Tribunal under Section 8(3) of the Delhi School Education Act, 1973, while the school sought referral of the dispute to …
The Delhi High Court, on a public‑interest writ filed by a parents' federation, held that several unaided recognised schools in Delhi were commercialising education by charging excessive fees and transferring surplus funds to their managing societies. The schools appealed to the Supreme Court, …
The Union of India appealed against a Delhi High Court order that reduced the consideration payable by Jain Sabha for an additional 0.787 acres of land allotted for a school. The government had originally allotted 1.363 acres in 1967 at Rs 5,000 per acre, and later, in 1990, offered 2.15 acres with …
Cambridge School, an unaided recognised school, issued circulars requiring a 50% cut‑off in class X marks for admission to class XI, treating the move to class XI as a fresh admission. Several students, including Ms. Payal Gupta who scored 44.6%, challenged the circulars, and the Deputy Education …
The Supreme Court decided two matters. In Punjab National Bank & Ors. v. Surendra Prasad Sinha, the Court held that Section 3 of the Limitation Act bars only the remedy, not the underlying right to a debt, and that the bank's adjustment of a fixed‑deposit security to satisfy the principal debtor's …
Two teachers of the Kerala Education Society Senior Secondary School, a Delhi‑aided linguistic‑minority institution, challenged the appointment of T.N. Vishwanathan Nair as Vice‑Principal. The school had advertised the post requiring a Master’s degree, teaching experience and the ability to speak …
The Christian Medical College Vellore Association, a minority‑run educational institution, challenged two references made by the Tamil Nadu Government to the Labour Court under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, arguing that sections 9‑A, 10, 11‑A, 12 and 33 of the Act could not apply to a minority …
The petitioners, a teacher and vice‑principal of a Delhi aided school run by a linguistic minority society, were suspended by the school management on charges of fund diversion without obtaining prior approval of the Director of Education as required by section 8(4) of the Delhi School Education …
