RAWALPINDI, Dec 23: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench here on Tuesday dismissed a writ petition about the expulsion of two children from a military-run school, saying it was not maintainable as the matter involved two private parties.

Justice Maulvi Anwarul Haq dismissed the petition of Raja Nazakat Hussain about the expulsion of his sons – Dilawar Hussain and Mohammad Shameer (students of class I and II, respectively) – from the Army Public School (APS) Jarar Camp on Adiala Road.

The judge ruled that the matter did not involve any government organisation and the petition was not maintainable.A federal standing counsel appeared in the court on Tuesday and said the petitioner had made the secretary defence one of the respondents just to make the petition lawfully maintainable before the high court.

The petitioner through his lawyer Saeed Yosuf Khan, making the Ministry of Defence through its secretary, the APS administrator and the school principal respondents, had maintained that he got admitted his two sons to the APS Jarar Camp in 2007.

The petitioner said his boys showed over 80 per cent results in the examinations and were promoted to the next grade. Everything was going as normal until the school administration started pressing the petitioner and other local inhabitants to sell their inherited land adjacent to the camp on cheap rates. But the owners refused to oblige the administration.

The petitioner alleged that the school administration, in the bid to press him to sell his land, issued a letter on October 8, saying the names of his two sons had been struck off from the school due to shortage of accommodation.

He said he wrote a letter to the secretary defence appealing him to stop the ouster of his sons, but had not received a response so far.

On the other hand, the school administration, in their initial reply to the court, maintained that the petition was not maintainable on the technical grounds.

It said the boys were expelled to accommodate the children of army personnel.

Separately, the same bench dismissed the petition of a candidate for the post of constable in Punjab Police after he was found short in height. The court directed the SP headquarters present in the court room to measure the height of the petitioner, Hasnain Zafar, who was 0.25 of an inch short of the set standard of five feet and seven inches.

The petitioner had maintained that he was not properly measured while being selected for the job of a constable in Rawalpindi district and was subjected to discrimination.