Strengthen School Tribunal, frame rules for execution of orders: HC to Delhi government
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the city government to "strengthen" the Delhi School Tribunal and frame rules, preferably within three months, for effective implementation and execution of its orders.
A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia observed that in spite of the suggestion made by the High Court's full bench in 2010 to frame such rules, the authorities had not done so.
Noting that at present, the law had no provision for implementation of the order of the Delhi School Tribunal, the bench stated, "such a situation cannot be permitted to go on".
"You have to strengthen the tribunal. What is the difficulty in empowering the tribunal," the court remarked.
"We hope and expect that the need for having an execution mechanism shall be considered by the appropriate authorities and adequate steps shall be taken to provide for such a mechanism. We hope appropriate decision and action warranted will be completed as early as possible preferably within three months from today," the court ordered.
"We dispose of the petition with a direction to the LG or administrator to consider the issue raised in the petition and take appropriate steps to address the same by framing appropriate rules or evolving any other legally permissible mechanism," it added.
The court added that the Centre shall immediately consider any proposal made to it by the Delhi government in this regard.
The court was hearing a public interest litigation by an NGO, Justice for All.
The petitioner argued that the present legal framework did not permit any aggrieved employee of a private school to initiate execution proceedings for an order passed by the tribunal.
The counsel for the Delhi government said the petition was an abuse of process of law and the petitioner had failed to show any orders that were not executed.
The court stated that a tribunal must function within the four corners of its statute and unless the statute provided for execution, the same could not be permitted simply as a matter of "practice".
"We are of the view that suggestion as given by the full bench way back in 2010 ought to have been considered and appropriate mechanism ought to have been provided by framing the rules or evolving any other legally permissible mechanism. The judgement was rendered on August 27, 2010, i.e. about one and half decade ago.
"However, till date neither rules have been framed nor any other alternate mechanism has been evolved. Such a situation warrants immediate attention of the authorities," the court said.
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Manipur: Mortal remains of children killed in bomb attack handed over to family
Imphal (PTI): The mortal remains of two children, who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April, were handed over to family members on Saturday, officials said.
The bodies of the five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister were kept in the morgue for 25 days, as the family members had refused to accept the mortal remains, demanding that the perpetrators be brought to book at the earliest.
On April 25, Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the family members of the children to accept the bodies. Singh had also said that all efforts were underway to find the culprits.
The two children were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on April 7. Their bodies were kept in the morgue at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal.
The incident had triggered widespread violent protests in the five valley districts of Manipur, and the case was subsequently handed over to the NIA.
Hundreds of people lined up along the way to Tronglaobi to offer floral tributes, as the mortal remains were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle earlier in the day.
