Tirupur corporation recovers buildings from Rotary school

Corporation officials on Friday regained possession of the buildings on the premises of Jaiva Bhai Corporation Girls School in which the Rotary Club’s school was functioning illegally, following a Supreme Court verdict that was pronounced nearly a year back.

But the officials had to face stiff opposition before they could get back the buildings as a group of teachers and parents blocked the entrance to the Rotary School. The parents and teachers demanded that the decision to take back the possession of the classrooms used by the Rotary Club school should be deferred for some more time.

However, the police team led by Inspector (Tirupur North) D. Rajasekaran stood firm that the court order need to be respected.

The process of getting back the buildings from Rotary school was the culmination of a legal tussle that lasted almost two decades with a Supreme Court bench, comprising Justices H. L. Dattu and Arun Mishra, on July 30 last year, eventually dismissing a special leave petition (SPL) filed by the Rotary school.

The Rotary school filed the SPL to seek relief from the Madras High Court order asking the school to shift out of the one acre space which it occupied on Corporation school campus from early 1960s without following proper procedures. Even the review petition was dismissed by the apex court.

It was the legal tussle initiated by the Parent Teachers Association of Jaiva Bhai school in 1996, which now resulted in Corporation getting back its buildings.

On the reasons for delay in implementing the Supreme Court order, the Corporation Executive Engineer M. V. D. Tamilselvan told The Hindu that the school was given time to find alternatives.