MALAPPURAM: The District Consumer Forum on Tuesday directed a private school to pay Rs. 2 lakh as penalty for issuing the transfer and conduct certificate (TC) to a student in a way that will adversely affect his higher education prospects. As per the directive, the school authorities should pay the amount within a month, failing which they should remit an amount at 10 per cent interest of the penalty during the period of delay. The judgment came as Mohammed Ismayil, son of Pallikkunnu Hamsa, hailing from Edakkara, filed a complaint against Good Shepherd Modern English Medium School at Palunda near Chunkathara where he had completed his secondary school education. The complaint said that the school authorities demanded Rs. 39,000 as fees when his father approached them for his TC to join another school for higher secondary education. It also said that they turned a deaf ear to his parent’s plea to correct the wrongly entered date of birth in the mark list. Delivering the verdict, the consumer forum discarded the argument of the school management that the institution’s prospectus had clearly instructed the students to pay the complete fees up to Standard XII, even if they leave the school after X. In an interim order, the Forum had directed the school to issue a TC to Mohammed Ismayil. However, the school authorities issued it with the conduct of the student being marked ‘bad’. It was also mentioned in the certificate that the student had a liability of Rs. 27,000 to the school. Making a strong comment against the move, the Forum directed the school authorities to issue a new TC marking the conduct of the student as good, along with the penalty.
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