Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 6: High Court today directed Commissioner Secretary Education Department and Secretary Board of School Education to take a final decision within a period of two weeks on the representation made by Association for Social Health in India seeking participation of a gang rape victim in the middle standard examination as a special case.
Advocate S S Ahmed appearing for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner-Association was running a short stay home namely Neha Ghar at Kachi Chawni Jammu for women in distress and a victim of gang rape came to be lodged in Neha Ghar on July 9, 2011 on the directions of Judicial Magistrate 1st Class (Sub-Judge) Jammu.
He further submitted that an embargo was made by the court in the order that the Incharge Neha Ghar will ensure that nobody meets her without prior permission from the court. “For the last more than four years the victim is being provided education in Neha Ghar by arranging tuitions but in view of the stipulation the victim could not be admitted in the nearby Government Girls High School Kachi Chawni”, he further submitted.
“The age of the victim is almost 16 years and she is eligible to sit in middle standard examination and in this regard the petitioner Association made a detailed representation to the Secretary School Education Department on February 14, 2015 to pass appropriate orders on the plight of the victim so that as a special case she can appear in the middle standard examination but the Secretary Education preferred not to pass any order on the representation”, Advocate Ahmed further said.
After hearing Advocates Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed, Irfaan Mohd Khan and Suraj Singh appearing for the petitioner and AAG Ravinder Gupta, Justice Bansi Lal Bhat, while appreciating the cause projected in the petition, directed Secretary Education and Secretary BOSE to take a final call in the matter within two weeks from today. “The State functionaries shall file a compliance report in this regard with the Registrar Judicial of the High Court within a period of two weeks from today”, Justice Bhat further directed.
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