Mother sues Aitchison over son’s admission
LHC issues notice to school principal for June 10.
LAHORE:
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought a reply from the principal of Aitchison College for June 10 on a petition from a student whom the school denied admission to class five.
The petition was filed by Syeda Mahreen Abrar, the mother of Hassan Abrar Ali Khawaja. She submitted that her son got admission in class one on merit in 2006 and studied there for six months, during which time he was a good student.
She said the boy’s father, a civil servant, died in 2007 and she had to withdraw her son from the college due to financial constraints. After some time, when her financial condition improved, she tried to get her son back into the school, which she said was what her late husband had always wanted. However, the school did not admit him.
The petitioner said that she wrote to the college principal on May 10, 2011, asking that her son’s admission be considered or grounds of merit as well as compassion.
The application was rejected without explanation, she said. Mrs Abrar, who made her submission personally before the court, said the school’s refusal to readmit her son, when he had already studied there, was illegal.
She asked the court to direct the school authorities to redress her grievance and let her son into class five.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 9th, 2011.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought a reply from the principal of Aitchison College for June 10 on a petition from a student whom the school denied admission to class five.
The petition was filed by Syeda Mahreen Abrar, the mother of Hassan Abrar Ali Khawaja. She submitted that her son got admission in class one on merit in 2006 and studied there for six months, during which time he was a good student.
She said the boy’s father, a civil servant, died in 2007 and she had to withdraw her son from the college due to financial constraints. After some time, when her financial condition improved, she tried to get her son back into the school, which she said was what her late husband had always wanted. However, the school did not admit him.
The petitioner said that she wrote to the college principal on May 10, 2011, asking that her son’s admission be considered or grounds of merit as well as compassion.
The application was rejected without explanation, she said. Mrs Abrar, who made her submission personally before the court, said the school’s refusal to readmit her son, when he had already studied there, was illegal.
She asked the court to direct the school authorities to redress her grievance and let her son into class five.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 9th, 2011.