HC orders John Wilson School to take back two expelled students

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned of Sir John Wilson School in the capital's Badda to allow its two students, who were expelled earlier, to attend their regular classes and examinations.

In response to a writ petition, the court also stayed the decision of the school authorities to expel Maliha Muskan Ahmed, a class VIII student, and her brother Maaniu Ahmed, a first-grader, for four months.

The school authorities expelled them on March 10 after their father Minhaj Ahmed Shafil had an altercation with the project director of the school MA Rouf over its playground the same day, petitioner Minhaj told The Daily Star.

Yesterday, the HC also issued a rule upon the authorities concerned of the school and government to explain in four weeks as to why the decision of expelling the students should not be declared illegal.

The HC bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice AHM Shahidul Huq came up with order and rule after hearing the writ petition filed for challenging the legality of the decision of the expulsion.