Students belonging to General Merit (GM) category can seek admission to government-run residential schools such as Morarji Desai, Kittur Rani Chennamma, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee schools.
The State government on Monday told the Karnataka High Court that it has withdrawn the April 24, 2017, notification reserving all the seats in the State-run residential schools only for students of the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and other Backward Classes (BCs).
In a memo filed before the court, the government said earlier admission proposition of 50% for students under the GM category, and remaining 50% for reserved category (25% for SCs and STs, and 25% for BCs) has been restored by issuing a fresh notification on February 28, 2018.
The court had last month stayed the April 24 notification while hearing a petition filed by Vishwanatha S. Mathad and four others, who are parents of minor children aspiring to be admitted to VI standard in such schools.
Meanwhile, the court on Monday disposed of the petition by accepting the memo filed on behalf of the government.
‘Amend plea of former DGP (Prisons)’
The Karnataka High Court on Monday asked the counsel for former DGP (Prisons) H.N. Sathyanarayana Rao to amend the petition in which he has challenged the February 26, 2018 Government Order directing a probe against him by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), to challenge the First Information Report (FIR) registered against him.
The court granted a day’s time to the counsel to amend the petition.
The government, in its February 26, 2018 order, directed the ACB to register a case of criminal misconduct by a pubic servant under Sections 13(1)(c) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 on the complaint that Mr. Rao had allegedly accepted a bribe of ₹2 crore for extending special facilities in violation of the law to V.K. Sasikala, who is undergoing imprisonment in a disproportionate assets case.
