Parents of the students of Royal Public Academy School in Mankhurd were in for a shock on October 26 when the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) sealed the institute, which was being run on the ground floor of Sapta Sangam cooperative housing society in the area. With all of it happening at a time when term-end examination is scheduled to start, more than 800 students of the school await alternate arrangements.

According to sources, a society committee, which was dissolved in 2017 due to some internal dispute, had rented out the ground floor to the school in 2015, even though the premises were under the control of MMRDA.