The High Court stayed an expulsion order of two students of an English medium school in the capital and asked authorities to let them take part in regular academic activities.
The HC bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice AKM Shahidul Huq gave the order on hearing a writ petition filed by the two siblings’ father yesterday.
Minhaj Ahmed filed the petition against a decision by Sir John Wilson School (SJWS) at Satarkul of Uttar Badda on March 24.
He said his elder daughter and younger son are students of the school, which shifted its campus from a rented house in Gulshan to its own property at Badda three months prior.
On March 10, when Minhaj went to the school to pick up his son and take him home, a school employee asked Minhaj for his opinion on the annual sports day held some days back. When Minhaj replied the programme was fine, but could be better with a larger school playground, the employee asked him to speak with a school authority.
At one stage of the conversation, a man introducing himself as the school project director came up and spoke with Minhaj, engaging in an altercation.
“I said they could build a larger playground, as it was the school’s own land, but that man started a heated argument,” Minhaj said.
After he returned home, the school authorities sent a letter to his address stating his children had been expelled. He tried to convince the authorities but failed, he told reporters at the court yesterday.
Minhaj lodged the writ against the expulsion order of his children.