{"id":103356,"date":"2020-07-03T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=103356"},"modified":"2020-08-25T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:39:08","slug":"plea-filed-in-sc-seeking-maximum-relief-in-school-fees-for-period-of-covid-19-induced-national-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/courts-news\/plea-filed-in-sc-seeking-maximum-relief-in-school-fees-for-period-of-covid-19-induced-national-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea Filed In SC Seeking Maximum Relief In School Fees For Period Of COVID 19 Induced National Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A petition has been filed in the<strong> Supreme Court<\/strong> seeking maximum relief in the School fee for the period of COVID 19 induced national lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition has been filed by Advocate Reepak Kansal seeking an intervention of the Supreme Court with respect to interpretation and application of Force Majeure clauses in the current circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petitioner has submitted that \u201c<em>the private school administrations have been demanding school fee and other charges without rendering any services<\/em>.\u201d However the authorities have not been taking any action against the <em>\u201cillegal demands<\/em>\u201d of the school administrations under their respective jurisdiction despite protests by the parents and students in various parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petitioner has referred to the case of <strong><em>Re: Energy watchdog Vs. CERC &amp;Ors.,<\/em><\/strong> where the Supreme Court had held that \u201c<em>in case the contract itself contain an express and implied terms relating to Force Majeure condition, the same shall be governed by Section 32 of the Indian Contract Act. <\/em>Further the Court also held that\u201c<em>if there is an existing force majeure clause then that covers the scope of a party\u2019s entitlement to claim force majeure and no reliance can be placed on frustration generally as is defined in section 56 of the Indian Contract Act.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petitioner has further submitted that \u201c<em>there is no Force Majeure clause in the said admission form, therefore, demanding fee and expenses without rending service is illegal and against the principle of natural justice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pointing out at the demerits of online classes, the petitioner has stated that \u201c<em>that there is no clause in the admission form that in case of epidemic \/ adverse situation \/ nation lock down etc., the school administration would provide online classes and charge same set of fee &amp; expenses for the same<\/em>.\u201d The petitioner has further submitted that students face a lot of problem understanding the lectures through the medium of online classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong><em>-India Legal Bureau<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking maximum relief in the School fee for the period of COVID 19 induced national lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246],"tags":[88594,950,88121,87971,90626,90625,20232],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2020\/07\/01154435\/Supreme-Court-_-Anil-Shakya-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}