The Appellate Division on Wednesday asked the principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College to maintain status-quo over the admission to the seats of 169 children who were disqualified for admission in Class I due to the age limit.
A five-judge bench chaired by chief justice Obaidul Hassan also asked the High Court to dispose of in two months the ruling it issued on January 23 asking the government and the principal to explain in four weeks why the admission of the 169 over-age children, who were selected through the lottery, would not be declared illegal.
The High Court issued the rule after hearing a writ petition filed by two guardians challenging the legality of selecting the 169 children in Class I.聽聽
The school鈥檚 lawyer, Rafiul Islam told reporters that the authorities could not take action to admit the waiting children in the seats of dropped 169 children as the Appellate Division asked the authority to maintain status-quo over the admission.聽聽
He said that the children, who were born before January 1, 2017 disqualified to get admission in class I, according to the admission rule.
Of the 169 children, 10 were born in 2015 while 159 others were born in 2016, Rafiul said.
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education asked the institution's principal on February 27 to inform the directorate after cancelling the admission of the children.聽聽聽
And the school later cancelled admission of the 169 children and the directorate submitted the list of the children to the High Court on March 6 in complying with its directive issued on January 23.
The High Court on March 6 also asked the school to admit the waiting children to the seat of 169 dropped students.
The some guardians of the 169 students appealed to the Appellate Division seeking stay on the High Court鈥檚 directive.
Lawyer Mustafizur Rahman Khan appeared for the dropped students.