New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked four DU colleges to reply on a plea by teachers seeking direction to the institutions, affiliated to the varsity and fully funded by the AAP government, to release their salaries pending for the last four months.

A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad asked Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Bhagini Nivedita College, Aditi Mahavidyalaya Women's College and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies to file their status reports on the petition.

The court also asked the Delhi government and Delhi University to file their replies to the plea and listed the matter for further hearing on November 4. Initially, the plea was filed against 12 colleges for non-payment salaries; h...