Order on plea for hostel accommodation to be given later The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed a private school here to admit two 100 per cent visually-impaired girl students to Class XI during the current session.
A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice A. K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw passed the direction on public interest litigation by voluntary organisation Social Jurist submitting that the school had denied admission to them arbitrarily. On the plea for providing hostel accommodations to the two girls, the Bench said it would pass order on that on September 25. The petitioner submitted that Kumari Sita and Kumari Ranjana belonging to the lower strata of society were denied admission by the respondent school in a cruel, illegal and arbitrary manner. The petitioner submitted that despite intervention by the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities and the Directorate of Education, Delhi Government, the school did not relent to grant admission to these unfortunate but deserving students, the petition stated. The two girls had been studying in this school in Vikaspuri in West Delhi since Class VI and had appeared and passed Class X examination from there, the petition said. While Kumari Ranjana was flatly refused admission when she failed to produce the death certificate of her father, Kumari Sita was initially granted admission without hostel but later denied when she lodged a complaint with the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities about admission without hostel accommoda http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article3891023.ece -- Avinash Shahi MPhil Research Learner Centre for the Study of Law and Governance Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
