Minister’s decree is subjective?
The RA Administrative Court began the trial for the case filed by principal of special school N11 of Nubarashen. Judge Artsrun Mirzoyan studied the documents presented by both sides and attached them to the case materials.
School principal Meruzhan Yengibaryan is disputing RA Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan's decision by which the latter had suspended his powers. The Minister's decision comes after the general jurisdiction court of Erebuni and Nubarashen communities sentenced former teacher of the same school Levon Avagyan to two years in prison in May 2010 for sexual assault against schoolchildren and for committing immoral acts.
After today's trial, Meruzhan Yengibaryan's advocate Mels Manukyan told journalists that his client demands his post as school principal back and added: "We find that the Minister issued the decree based on subjective considerations and, most importantly it doesn't emanate from the requirements stated in the law."
Judge Mirzoyan returned most of the documents that Yengibaryan had presented, saying that they were illegal because there was neither a stamp nor a signature. Through those documents, Mels Manukyan had tried to show his client's morality which has been expressed in the students' writings and press articles.
Chief expert of the legal department at the RA Ministry of Education and Science Lilit Vardanyan told "A1+" that she could bring counter-arguments. "We are not dealing with an educator, but an official who had to duly fulfill his duties and supervise the actions of his cadres."
Attending the trial was MP Anahit Bakhshyan who has attended all trials for this case to evaluate that phenomenon as an educator. "This trial interests me in that I want to understand when the court declared a trial, how it is going to corroborate its steps and what its ruling will be. I think the court shouldn't have moved on to a trial and had to close the case because the Minister's lack of confidence in the principal is so evident," said the MP.
School principal Meruzhan Yengibaryan didn't show up to court today and had informed that he was ill.
The next trial will be held on February 22 at 14:30.
