The Telangana High Court Friday granted an interim stay on the immediate eviction of a private school in Hyderabad, protecting the ongoing academic year for approximately 750 students. The court stayed all further proceedings related to a batch of writ petitions filed by a dozen parents of students, concerning Radiant High School in Musheerabad, and emphasised that a private conflict should not override the constitutional rights of children.

“A dispute between a landlord and a tenant should not adversely impact 750 innocent students, and the state and the Education Department have an obligation to safeguard the interest of children and provide educational access and to ensure continuity of schooling,” the bench of Justice Surepally Nanda observed.

The petitions challenged a lower court’s

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