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Schools can take legal action if Students don't pay fee on time, says Supreme Court

Lawstreet Journal 11 Oct 2021 11:59pm

Image courtesy: Lawstreet Journal Judiciary Schools can take legal action if Students don't pay fee on time, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has clarified that School managements can take legal action if students do not pay the fee installments on time.

On May 3, 2021, the court had held that States cannot impinge on the autonomy of private unaided schools to fix and collect “just” and “permissible” school fees from parents, especially in the name of the pandemic.

The May verdict had come in a series of appeals filed by private unaided schools in Rajasthan against government notifications to defer/reduce school fees due to aftermath of pandemic (lockdown) from March 2020.

Some parents had refused to pay despite the judgment nearly five months ago. School managements, represented by advocate Romy Chacko, had moved the apex court again.

Clarifying, a Bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar recently ordered that the court’s judgment in May “does not prohibit the schools from taking coercive action against the students who have failed to pay the instalments as per the arrangement predicated in the judgment”.

“The spirit of the direction given in the judgment was to give time to the parent/ward concerned to pay the fees, including by way of instalments... That does not and did not extricate the parent/ward from the liability to pay the amount specified in the judgment in any manner,” the court noted in its order.

While noting that it was up to schools to initiate action for willful defaults in fee payment, the court said indulgence should also be shown to parents with genuine reasons.

The court reiterated,… Continue Reading...


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