The Karnataka High Court last month quashing the proceedings initiated under Section 124-A (Sedition) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against four persons belonging to the management of Shaheen School.
While the Karnataka High Court quashed the FIR filed over the staging of an anti-CAA play, it also emphasised that schools should refrain from teaching children to insult constitutional functionaries for policy decisions
The Karnataka High Court has held that under Section 94(1-A)(i) of the Karnataka Municipalities Act, an Educational Institution is exempted from payment of property taxes and the institute is not.
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday quashed the proceedings initiated against four persons belonging to the management of Shaheen School in Bidar, where the students belonging to classes 4, 5 and 6.
The case caused outrage after the Bidar town police "interrogated" around 85 students, all of them minors. The management of the school was accused of sedition and promoting enmity for staging the play, which was performed at a time the country saw widespread protests against the controversial CAA.