LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has been requested to withdraw its restraining order issued in favour of private schools against the government’s action with regard to their inflated fee structure.

Judicial Activism Panel chairman Advocate Azhar Siddique filed an application in pending petitions of the All-Pakistan Private Schools Management Association and others. The schools had challenged the newly promulgated Punjab Private Educational Institutions and Regulations (Amendment) Ordinance 2015.

The court had restrained the provincial government from taking coercive measures against private schools till the disposal of the case.

Advocate Siddique stated that the private schools were not withdrawing increased fees and taking shelter behind the stay order. He said the court had stayed the government action and not the decrease in the fee as received till 2014.

He pleaded that the restraining order should be withdrawn as the private schools were misusing it.

Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2015

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