Karnataka High Court upholds cancellation of school’s recognition for producing fake certificate and illegally running madarasa

The Karnataka High Court has upheld the State government’s decision to cancel the recognition of a private school that had been functioning for 20 years. It was recently discovered that the society, which was managing the school, had submitted a fake certificate claiming its registration way back in 1979 in Mumbai under the Maharashtra Societies Registration Act.

The State education authorities had found that the society was operating schools in different names under one recognition certificate and crediting fees collected from students to different accounts of an unregistered society besides illegally running a madarasa within the same campus. Following these disclosures, the Education Department on May 30, 2025, had cancelled recognition and the appellate authority in January 2026 had endorsed cancellation of the recognition.