India, July 4 -- LUCKNOW The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday reserved its judgement in the merger of schools case after a detailed hearing for two days, in which the petitioner sought stay on the government order for merger of primary schools and the state government justified its decision.

A single-judge bench of Justice Pankaj Bhatia reserved the order on Friday evening after the state government presented its viewpoint, justifying the merger of schools. Hearing in the case began on Thursday.

Additional advocate general (AAG) Anuj Kudesia and chief standing counsel (CSC) Shailendra Kumar Singh presented the state government's view in court.

The government counsel apprised the court about such primary schools that ...