A city-based private school on Tuesday moved the High Court of Karnataka against the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights for “harassing” the school management by asking unnecessary details in the guise of acting on a “false” complaint of corporal punishment to a student studying in the school.
Vacation judge Justice S. Sujatha, before whom the petition filed by New Blossoms Education Society, which runs New Blossoms School on Bagalakunte main road, came for hearing, adjourned further hearing by tagging the petition to other petitions related to the issue on school safety norms.
It has been alleged in the petition that the commission had issued summons to the school based on a complaint of corporal punishment, but the commission did not allow the school principal to submit written response to the summons and allegations made in the complaint. The petitioner also claimed that the commission has failed to conduct an enquiry as stipulated in the law based on the complaint received against the petitioner.
Interestingly, the commission suddenly came to inspect the school on October 5 and asked the school management to submit several “unnecessary details” such as audit reports, which are not under the purview of the commission. It has been alleged in the petition that the commission is using the “false” complaint to harass the secretary of the petitioner-society, who is the State General Secretary of Associated Managements’ of English Medium Schools in Karnataka, for taking up grievances of private school managements against the commission.
