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Karnataka High Court held that a school’s duty of care continues beyond the school gate until students are safely dropped home. It refused to quash an FIR against a Mandya school in a case where a Class IV student suffered permanent eye injury in a bus.

Karnataka: The Karnataka High Court has held that a school’s duty of care towards students does not end at the school gate and continues until children are safely dropped home in the school bus, as per the Bar and Bench Report.

Observing that a school bus is an “extension of the school itself,” Justice M. Nagaprasanna refused to quash criminal proceedings against the management of a Mandya-based school in connection with an incident in which a Class IV student suffered a permanent eye injury while travelling in a school bus.

The Court was hearing a petition filed by Divyajyothi School Management challenging an FIR registered against it.

“Safety in school buses is a statutory obligation”