While issuing a notice to a school in Mumbai for expelling a boy without any logical reason, the Mumbai High Court on Tuesday said that, “schools have started taking law into their own hands and have become a money spinning racket.”
A division bench of justices V M Kanade and M S Sonak issued the notice against HVB Global Academy School in Marine Lines in south Mumbai after taking cognisance of a letter written by the father of the 12-year-old boy.
The school initially quoted a fee of Rs 1,09,500 which I paid and have a receipt of. However, later the school demanded Rs 50,000 more in cash for uniform, school books, bags and other stationery items. When I objected to the extra sum, the school authorities started threatening me and my family.Santosh Mehta, the boy’s father
Mehta also alleged that the school authorities fraudulently threatened his wife into signing a blank paper, based on which the school issued a transfer certificate and expelled his son from the school.
The high court said that it wants to hear the school’s side of the story before pronouncing any judgment and posted the matter for hearing on 11 July.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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