KARACHI, March 13: Justice Zahid Kurban Alavi of the Sindh High Court granted stay order on a suit filed against the management of a school that is being closed down and its students are to be shifted to another school.

The suit was filed by Abdul Ghaffar Mehanti and parents of six students of the school, which is run by the Kathiawar Co-Operative Housing Society, Karachi. The court ordered that children should not be disturbed from pursuing their academic career and issued notices to the defendants, the Kathiawar Co-operative Housing Society and Haroon Abdul Ghani Momtex, the convener of the school management committee, for March 21.

Shamsuddin Khalid, counsel for the plaintiffs, submitted that Adamjee Public School was being run for the past 40 years, but now it was being closed down and the students were to be shifted to another school. The plaintiffs were apprehensive about the future of the students.—PPI