KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the provincial authorities and others to file their comments on yet another constitutional petition against the administration of a private school for charging enhanced fee from students.

The petition was filed by the parents of as many as 121 pupils who said that the administration of Generations School had increased the school fee and it had become all the more difficult for them to get their children educated from private schools.

They said that the school administration was charging enhanced fee from them though the federal and provincial government had restrained the school administration from enhancing the fee.

The petitioners asked the court to declare the enhancement in school fee illegal and restrain the school administration from overcharging them.

A division bench of the high courtput the respondents on notice and directed that no adverse action should be taken against the petitioners` children by the school administration till further orders.

Meanwhile, the court ordered tagging of an identical petition filed by over 300 parents against the same school with the instant petition and putoffthehearingtoadate tobelater announced by the court`s office.

Contempt case against IG, others Two senior police officers filed their respective unconditional apology in the contempt application of former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza against Inspector General of Police, Sindh, Ghulam Hyder Jamali and other police officers for besieging the SHC and antiterrorism court on May 19 and 23.

DIG-West Feroze Shah and the SSPSecurity were the two officers who submitted their unconditional apology.

During the May 23 siege of theSHC, uniformed and plain-clothes personnel had used force to arrest a number of associates of Dr Mirza who, along with them, appeared in court to seek confirmation of their pre-arrest ball in several cases. Dr Mirza`s guards and some of his associates, as well as media persons, were manhandied at the main gate of the court`s building. Several vehicles parl
Later, Dr Mirza filed a contempt petition citing the Sindh and Karachi police chiefs and other senior police ofñcers asrespondents.

A two-member bench headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had earlier on June 12 had reserved the verdict on the contempt application against the provincial police chief and others till a date in office.

During the previous hearings, Justice Shah had come down heavily on IGP Jamali for his failure to protect the SHC. `We don`t want an IGP who can`t protect courts,` he had said.