The Delhi High Court on Monday granted a week’s time to the Centre, city Government and Sanskriti School to file their counter affidavits on a plea challenging an order of the lieutenant-Governor that allowed the institution to reserve seats for children of bureaucrats.
A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana also placed the matter before the single judge who is already hearing other similar petitions challenging the l-G’s order and directed that the single judge decides the matter in 10 days after the filing of the counter by the Government.
The court was hearing an appeal against the single judge order refusing to grant any immediate relief to Dheeraj Kumar Singh, the lawyer-father of a three-year-old girl, who contended that the
l-G Recognised Schools (Admission Procedure for Pre-primary Class) Order 2013 “permits specific Government services and more particularly All India Services an unfettered and unrestricted right to reserve seats for their wards”.