While listening to a suo motu petition concerning demolition of a faculty constructing and playground in Mandi for development of a proposed shopping center, the excessive court docket of Himachal Pradesh has directed the state authorities to position on file the location plan together with the approval granted by TCP in addition to municipal authorities.

The court docket additionally directed the state to tell the variety of faculties that had been earlier functioning, what number of college students are at present enrolled with such faculties and what’s the proposal of the state authorities for the development of latest faculty buildings.

A division bench comprising chief justice Mohammad Rafiq and justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua handed these orders on a petition taken up suo motu by the HC as public curiosity litigation on a letter addressed to chief justice by a scholar of Vijay Senior Secondary School, Mandi.

The petitioner had alleged that through the lockdown, the state authorities demolished the college constructing and playground whereas the vacant house has additionally been lined. He additional claimed that purchasing malls had been proposed to be constructed there to profit a number of wealthy individuals and political leaders.

The petitioner mentioned poor, orphan and migrant youngsters had been learning within the faculty and so they had been being pressured.