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Language row: contempt plea against State

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court has posted to next week a contempt petition by several schools challenging the refusal of four officials of the Education Department to comply with the orders of the High Court on the language issue.

The schools, Alpha Education Society and others, contended that a single judge had on July 11, 2008, asked the State Government to consider applications by schools to teach in English medium.

The single judge, they said, had asked the Government to take a decision in the light of the Full Bench judgment of the Karnataka High Court. They said the Full Bench had said the State could not compel students studying in private unaided minority institutions to learn in Kannada or their mother tongueas medium of instruction. It said that a child and its parents had the right to choose the medium of instruction.

The schools said four officials — Principal Secretary of Primary and Secondary Education R.G. Nadadur; Commissioner for Public Instruction G. Kumara Naik; Director of Public Instruction Mir Obedulla; and Deputy Director of Public Instruction, Bangalore North, Chandrappa — had committed contempt of court.

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