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Gang rape victim approaches HC for appearing in middle standard exam HC directs secretaries of edu deptt, BOSE to take final decision within 2 weeks 10/6/2015 11:18:03 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 6:High court judge Bansi Lal Bhat has directed secretaries of education department and J&K State Board of School Education (BOSE) to take a final decision within two weeks on the February 14, 2015 representation made by J&K branch of Association for Social Health in India as regards the plea of a gang rape victim to appear in middle standard examination as a special case. Justice Bhat also directed the state functionaries to file a compliance report in this regard with the high court Registrar Judicial within a period of two weeks from today. The court directive came in a petition filed by Association for Social Health in India (J&K State Branch), seeking direction to the secretaries of education department and BOSE to allow the victim of gang rape to appear in middle standard examination as a special case. After hearing the two sides, the judge directed the two secretaries to take a final call in the matter within two weeks from today. It was submitted that the petitioner association is running a short stay home namely Neha Ghar at Kachi Chawni Jammu for women in distress and the 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. An embargo was also made by the court that the Incharge Neha Ghar will ensure that nobody should be allowed to meet her without its prior permission. It was submitted that for the last more than four years the victim was being provided education at Neha Ghar by arranging tuitions but in view of the aforementioned stipulation the victim could not be admitted in the nearby Government Girls High School, Kachi Chawni. The counsel submitted that 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 said representation. Justice Bhat, while appreciating the cause projected in the petition particularly the zeal of the victim to appear in the examination, disposed of the petition by issuing a time bound direction of two weeks to the Commissioner/Secretary School Education Department and Secretary Board of School Education to take a decision on the representation of the petitioner Association and also to file a compliance report in this regard before the Registrar Judicial of the court. (JNF)   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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