New Delhi, Sep 24 (Inditop.com) Taking a serious view of a 12-year-old girl being denied admission to a government school, the Delhi High Court asked the school to admit her within a week’s time.
A division bench comprising of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan asked the government counsel to make sure that the girl gets admission in Class VI in the government senior secondary school at K-Block, Jahangirpuri, within a week.
The court was hearing a public interest petition by NGO Social Jurist, who contended that Ruby, a student of Class VI, was denied admission without any justified reason.
Disposing off the petition, the court asked the government not to deny admission to children and fulfil their constitutional duty of providing education.
According to the petition, Ruby has studied in a private school till class V but her parents now could not afford to have her continue there so they applied to the nearby government school.
“The school denied admission to Ruby despite the endorsement by the education officer of the area and wrote no transfer certificate attached, which is not applicable in case of Ruby as she used to study privately before,” Ashok Aggarwal, counsel for Ruby, submitted.
He added it was really unfortunate that Ruby had to run from one authority to another for grant of admission in the academic year 2009-10 but without any success.
