BANAGLORE: Even as parents of children studying at the east Bangalore school where 6-year-old Rhea (name changed) was sexually assaulted on July 2 want it to reopen so that their kids can continue with their studies, a TOI investigation shows that the school has committed several violations since its inception.The upmarket school which began functioning in June 2007 has been telling parents that it's an Indian School Certificate Examinations (ICSE) school. While hundreds of parents have taken this at face value and enrolled their children, documents with TOI show it obtained the certificate of affiliation from the Council for ICSE (CICSE) only on October 9, 2013. It was eligible to function as an ICSE school only from the next academic year.CICSE chairman Dr Jose Aikara, who signed the certificate, told TOI on Tuesday that affiliation was issued in 2013. "It is not lawful. A school cannot claim it is an ICSE school before obtaining affiliation," Aikara said.On checking if the certificate could have been a renewal and if the school could have obtained affiliation earlier, a principal of another leading ICSE school said: "There is no renewal system. Once a school is granted affiliation, it stands until the board withdraws it." The CISCE chairman also confirmed this.Not only has the school violated CICSE norms, it has also violated the Karnataka Education Act, and the conditions laid down by the state government while approving the school, and later while issuing a No-Objection Certificate.A 2006-07 Block Education Officer's order allowing the school to function, following its application, says the management sought permission to start a Kannada medium school from Class I to Class V.The BEO explicitly lays down 22 conditions the school must follow to retain permission. The fourth condition reads: "...The school has to have Kannada as its medium of instruction and must permanently function as an unaided school. If it is found to violate any of these norms or others mandated by the authority concerned the permission will be withdraw without any prior notice."After obtaining this permission, the school sought an NOC from the government to get affiliated with the CICSE which would allow it to teach in English also.The government, on July 7, 2007, granted the NOC, laying down 12 conditions. It clearly states the NOC "shall not be construed as a letter of permission, recognition or registration to start a school. The school shall not be started 'until and unless' the CBSE/CICSE accords affiliation".It reiterates more than once in the conditions that starting a school without such affiliation is "not permissible".However, it says a school can be started after registering and obtaining recognition under the Karnataka Education Act, which then mandated Kannada as the medium of instruction. But in violation of all these conditions, the school has been teaching in English.On asking what action could be taken, public instruction department commissioner Mohammed Moshin said: "It is the job of the local BEO to inspect and verify if the school has obtained the required affiliations or not. I'm new to this department; I'll check the records and get back."The school's director (academic) Kavitha Sahay said: "We started Bangalore operations in 2007. We got the ICSE affiliation three or four years ago."