The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that private schools could only increase their fee by 5% annually, rejecting the Lahore High Court (LHC) decision in favour of private schools.
The Supreme Court, upholding a decision of the Sindh High Court (SHC) full bench, withdrew an order to reduce fee by 20%.
At the same time, the court barred administrations of schools to retrieve the money as outstanding charges. The apex court in its order said if private schools increased fee beyond 5% then they would have to submit a reason for it.
The judgement contained a dissenting note by Justice Faisal Arab who was part of the three-member bench hearing the case.
The verdict was reserved last week by the bench that was hearing a number of appeals against the cap on school fee introduced by the Sindh and Punjab governments, with not more than 5% increase allowed for initial three years in the case of Sindh.
