PESHAWAR, Aug 16: In a glaring example of lack of regulation, a private degree college closed down its operations, sold out the building and shifted the students under the control of another institution without their consent, sources said.

Amina Degree College for Women (ADCW), Hayatabad, shut down its business of education and handed over its around 200 girl students to the Institute of Computer and Management Sciences (ICMS), one of the parents told Dawn on condition of anonymity.

“The City School, Peshawar Campus, has bought the building of the ADCW and its students have been shifted to the ICMS,” an official of the City School told this correspondent.

The parents are worried about the future of their children after change of their college without their consent. When many students refused to continue their education in the ICMS, its administration asked them to pay Rs12,000 each for the college leaving certificate.

The parents complained that their children were virtually sold out like goats and sheep by the ADCW administration.

One parent said that his daughter was on summer vacations and a few days back she got a phone call from the ICMS administration to come to the institute for education at the end of the vacations as their college had shut down its operations.

The man, who opted not to named, said that his daughter was asked to receive the detail marks certificate (DMC) of the first year's exam from the ICMS and take admission there in the part-II of pre-engineering group of intermediate.

He said that when he approached the ICMS administration for college leaving certificate and migration certificate of his daughter the administration adopted delaying tactics and didn't give him the certificate even after several visits.

He said that the ICMS first tried to force him to admit her daughter, but when he refused the administration asked him to pay Rs12,000 for leaving the college.

He said that afterwards he brought the matter into the notice of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar, chairman Prof Mohammad Shafi, who intervened and started issuing migration certificates to the students on behalf of the board.

When contacted, owner of the ICMS Tajjamul Hayat said that the administration of the ADCW had handed him over the students as it had stopped operating the college and sold the building to the City School.

He said that there were around 100 students of graduate classes and 40 of part-II of intermediate level. Asked about the Rs12,000 charges for college leaving certificate, he said they wanted to retain maximum students given to his educational institution.

“Now we have started giving certificates and six girl students have left the college,” he said and added that they had not paid any money to the administration of ADCW for accepting their students.

The owner and principal of the ADCW could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.