HC admits PIL on use of school buses for PM's meet

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has suo motu converted a news report into a PIL alleging that the state administration had declared a holiday for students on August 9 and acquired 1800 school buses for ferrying people to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting at Bhabhra.
Taking cognisance of a news report on the issue, the Indore bench of the high court converted it into a public interest litigation, after seeking permission from the acting chief justice.
Senior advocate Anand Mohan Mathur yesterday raised the matter before a division bench of Justices P K Jaiswal and D K Paliwal contending that declaring a holiday for school students was a violation of 'Right to Education' enshrined in the Constitution.

Mathur pleaded before the bench that it should take cognisance of report on the issue following which the court referred the matter to Acting Chief Justice, Rajendra Menon, seeking permission to admit the PIL.
The high court then allowed the petition to be admitted at its Indore bench. It would come up for hearing in due course.
The Indore Collector had reportedly issued an order for acquiring schools buses on August 9, on the ground of a Met Department warning and also for the programme, while declaring the day as a holiday.

The report claimed that a total of 1800 buses were acquired for sending BJP workers to the Prime Minister's meeting at Bhabhra in Alirajpur on August 9, following which the matter was raised in the Indore bench of the HC.

The Indore bench has admitted the PIL on the issue," Mathur said.
When asked about the issue, the high court's Registrar General Manohar Mamtani said that the acting chief justice had granted permission to admit the petition on the issue.