ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: The Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi Bench, has summoned Prof Mamoon Abbas Khan, the chairman Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Rawalpindi, in a contempt case for allegedly violating its earlier direction of issuing registration cards to the students of a school.

The respondent has been asked to appear before the court on Friday in person.

Filed under Article 204 of the Constitution, the contempt petition said the management of Siddeeq Public School, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, had to submit the admission forms of its students without registration cards for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Examination, scheduled to be held in March 2002, as the BISE had not yet issued the cards.

Raja Tauqeer Ahmad Satti, advocate, is representing the school in the case.

The petition stated that despite directions by the court, issued to the BISE chairman on December 20, to maintain provisional affiliation of the school with the Board so that the students could appear in the examination, the Board had not issued the registration cards neither to the girls nor to the boys students. The petition also accused the BISE chairman of misrepresenting before the court that the school had not submitted the inspection/recognition fee.

Justice Mansoor Ahmad of the LHC, Rawalpindi Bench, in its earlier order, had directed the petitioner to deposit the inspection fee within seven days, asking the Board to complete the process of inspection within 30 days after deposition of the fee.

The petitioner, while stating that the inspection fee had already been submitted, also prayed before the court to refund the fee, which it had deposited in compliance with the court’s order.

The petition said the school as per routine schedule filed the “registration returns” of 102 boys and 100 girls students for the session 2000-02, but it was still not understandable on what reasons the registration returns of the students have been mailed back to the school administration on November 15, 2001 by the Board with the objection that the school had been recognized for girls students only.

The petition has also clarified that the students of the school, both boys and girls, have been appearing in the SSC examinations, conducted by the BISE Rawalpindi, for the last 10 years as regular candidates. However, the Board had never raised any objection during the last 10 years, it added.