The powers of the education department of the Delhi government to regulate school fees “cannot travel beyond the measures to curb commercialisation, profiteering and indulgence in charging capitation fee,” the Delhi High Court ruled on Thursday.

A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela dismissed appeals by the Directorate of Education (DoE) of the Delhi government against a single-judge order last year that had set aside the department’s notice directing two private schools not to increase their fees.

DoE in August 2018 had directed Bluebells School International, Kailash, a private unaided school, not to increase any fees pursuant to the fee hike proposed by the school for the academic session 2017-2018. DoE passed a similar order with respect to Lilawati V

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