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N Sathiya Moorthy in Chennai
The Madras high court on Wednesday declined to pass stay orders against the closure of Christian educational institutions in Tamil Nadu on Thursday, as part of the state-wide minorities' protest against the anti-conversion law.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice B Subhashan Reddy and Justice C Nagappan, however, clarified that the refusal to stay the closure should not be construed as legal sanction for the same.
Hearing two separate petitions in this regard, filed by the legal cell of the Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party and the state branch of the Ahil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad, the court also observed that students should not be involved in political and religious controversies of this kind.
With the Supreme Court seized of the constitutional rights of minority educational institutions in a case flowing from Tamil Nadu, the high court adjourned the case two months hence, for hearing and disposal.
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