'Schools Can't Be Without Playgrounds; Students Entitled To Good Environment' : Supreme Court Orders Removal Of Encroachments
There cannot be any school without a playground, observed the Supreme Court, while directing the removal of unauthorised occupations at a place reserved for playground for a school in Haryana.A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and BV Nagarathna disapproved of an order passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court which permitted regularisation of the encroachments near the school.Noting that. There cannot be any school without a playground, observed the Supreme Court, while directing the removal of unauthorised occupations at a place reserved for playground for a school in Haryana. A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and BV Nagarathna disapproved of an order passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court which permitted regularisation of the encroachments near the school. Even the students, who study in such a school are entitled to a good environment- Supreme Court directs removal of encroachments near school premises Encroachment of Public Land - Supreme Court sets aside HC direction to legalize unauathorized occuapations near a school by taking the market value - SC terms the High Court direction unsustainable- Notes that the school has no playground.
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