Supreme Court of India

State of Kerala and Others v. The Tribal Mission

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Reported as [2012] 7 S.C.R. 502
Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 4 September 2012

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What the Court ordered

We find no reason to interfere with the recognition already granted to the respondent school as a special case, but we make it clear that this or9er shall not be treated as a precedent.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

KERALA EDUCATION RULES 1959: c rr. 2 and 2A read with Government's Policy dated 13. 6. 2007 - Granting of recognition to schools in unaided sector - Held:· Indiscriminate grant of recognition to schools in the unaided sector may have an adverse affect on the State owned schools as well as the existing schools in the aided 0 sector, by way of division fall, retrenchment of teachers etc. - Therefore, the procedure laid down in rr. 2, 2A cpnnot be overlooked, otherwise it is bound to provide scope for discrimination, arbitrariness, favouritism - Besides, - Para 1 of the Policy indicates that

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