SC extends nursery admission deadline for Sanskriti School

The Delhi government’s deadline of January 22 for accepting nursery admission forms was on Tuesday extended till this month end for the prestigious Sanskriti School by the Supreme Court, which also decided to set up a three-judge Bench to hear the matter.

The Centre and the school administration have assailed in the Apex Court the decision of Delhi high court setting aside the 60 per cent quota for wards of group-A government officials who are in the highest class of government servants, in the school. They have also sought an interim order allowing the institution to continue with the admission process under the old scheme till the matter is finally decided by it.

A Bench comprising justices A R Dave and A K Goel, which has now fixed the pleas for hearing on January 21, said now a three-judge Bench would hear the petitions of the school and the Centre. Now, the court will decide as to whether the society running the school, can be held as state or its instrumentality under the Constitution and hence, amenable to the writ jurisdiction of the Apex Court and the high court.