JUDGMENT

W.P.(C) No.18868/2025 is filed by students of Junior Basic School (South), Agatti seeking to quash Ext.P2 whereby it has been ordered that the classes presently functioning in PM SHRI JB School (South) will be shifted to the Government JB School (North) Building and that the Principal should complete the shifting process by 31.05.2025 and submit action taken report by 05.06.2025.

2. The petitioners in W.P.(C) No.20161/2025 are students undergoing elementary education at Government Junior Basic School (GJBS), Andrott. They are aggrieved by Ext.P1 order dated 11.05.2025 issued by the Director of Education proposing shifting the classes functioning in Government Junior Basic School (GJBS), Machery to Government SB School, Edachery. The petitioners would urge that the impugned orders are issued in violation of Rule 6(1)(a) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2010.

3. The petitioners in W.P.(C) No.18868/2025 submit that until four years ago, there were three Junior Basic Schools in Agatti Island. The JBS South and JBS North were situated at the southern and northern extremity of the Island and the JBS Central is located midway between the two. About fo