Mumbai: Bombay High Court issued a show-cause notice to the Principal Secretary of Social Justice and School Education Departments of the state government, seeking explanation as to why contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated for not complying with an order.
The High Court, in April last year, had directed the government to release the funds towards freeships for scheduled caste/scheduled tribe students.
The direction came on a public interest litigation filed by Naresh Gosavi, which said that government had not disbursed the grants to private schools under the free education scheme, and as a result, students covered by the scheme were not being allowed to attend the schools.
Advocate Gayatri Singh, petitioner's lawyer, today informed that though the court had ordered that funds be released within four weeks, government had not acted on it.
The state government was to release over Rs 200 crore. The division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice R V More today ordered that secretaries of the concerned departments should remain present at the next hearing in April, and file reply as to why they failed to comply with the order.
However, if the last year's order was complied with before the next hearing, the two secretaries need not remain present, judges said.
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