The Karnataka High Court has upheld the State government’s decision to cancel the recognition of a private school that had been functioning for 20 years. It was recently discovered that the society, which was managing the school, had submitted a fake certificate claiming its registration way back in 1979 in Mumbai under the Maharashtra Societies Registration Act.
The State education authorities had found that the society was operating schools in different names under one recognition certificate and crediting fees collected from students to different accounts of an unregistered society besides illegally running a madarasa within the same campus. Following these disclosures, the Education Department on May 30, 2025, had cancelled recognition and the appellate authority in January 2026 had endorsed cancellation of the recognition.
Justice E.S. Indiresh passed the order while dismissing a petition filed by the Al-Jamia Mohamadiyah Education Society-Mumbai, situated on Thanisandra main road in Bengaluru.
Fine imposed
Meanwhile, the court also imposed a fine of ₹25,000 on the petitioner for going ahead with the admission of the students to the school for the academic year 2026-27 by issuing advertisement in Salaar, an Urdu daily newspaper and collecting fees from the parents, in violation of the undertaking of “not admit any student for the next academic year without permission of the court” during the pendency of the petition.
