ORDER :

1. The present writ petitions are taken up today through Video conferencing.

Both these writ petitions have been preferred against the action of the St. Xavier’s School, Ranchi-Patna Road, D.V.C. Colony, Hazaribagh, whereby the petitioners have neither been allowed to take admission in the next higher classes nor have been permitted to attend their online classes.

2. Mr. Ajit Kumar, learned Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners, submits that the petitioners are the students of the respondent-school and they had successfully completed the academic year 2019-20. They had also participated in the last examination and in view of the school’s guidelines, they are entitled to be promoted to the respective higher classes. However, to the utter surprise of the petitioners, they have not been allowed to take admission in the next higher classes by the respondent-school and they have also been denied to attend the online classes being conducted by the respondent-school in the wake of Corona-Virus (Covid-19) pandemic. It is further submitted that the petitioners represented before the principal of the respondent-school through their parents several times requesting inter-