December 16, 2015 7:59 AM

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SC to hear plea on abolition of quota in Sanskriti School

Supreme Court will hear today a plea of Centre challenging the Delhi High Court decision setting aside the 60 per cent quota in the prestigious, Sanskriti School in Delhi for wards of Group-A government officials. The decision to post the hearing was made by a bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and justices A K Sikri and R Banumathi when Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi sought urgent listing of the petition against the order of the high court.<br/><br/>While setting aside the 60 per cent quota in Sanskriti School, the high court in its November 6 judgement had said that it was akin to the erstwhile segregation of white and black students in the US and violated constitutional provisions of equality and right to education. The high court had taken suo motu cognizance of the issue in 2006 after reports that the school was charging nearly 40 per cent less fee from the children of Group-A officers of the Union Government vis-a-vis other children.

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