SC restrains states, UTs from acting on NCPCR move to close madrasas

THE SC on Monday stayed the recent orders of UP and Tripura governments which directed that all students in unrecognised madrasas and non-Muslim students studying in government-aided madrasas be shifted to government schools.

- SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY @ New Delhi

A three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, in its interim order, stayed the operation of the communication issued by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to states to shift students from unrecognised madrasas, which are not complying