New Delhi, Oct 28 (PTI) Committees constituted at zonal level to deal with the issue of fee hike and payment of salaries to teachers tantamount to relegating judicial functions to them which is not permissible in law, the Delhi High Court has held.

The high court said courts can constitute committees but they have to be only fact finding in nature and judicial functions cannot be relegated to them.

A bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Vimal Kumar Yadav passed the judgment while setting aside a single judge's order and remanding it back to the roster bench for fresh consideration.

The division bench said it was not in a position to sustain this portion of the single judge's order by which he had formed committees at the zonal and the central level to decide the issues of the teache

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