Considering her passion for studying, an NGO Association for Social Health in India (J&K State Branch) has approached the Jammu and Kashmir high court praying to allow the girl to sit in the class VIII examination to be held by State Board.
Where there is a will, there is always a way!
Leaving behind her pain and trauma, a 16-year-old gang-rape victim is pulling out all the stops to seek permission for appearing in the class VIII examination to be held by Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education (BOSE) in Jammu division.
Considering her passion for studying, an NGO Association for Social Health in India (J&K State Branch) has approached the Jammu and Kashmir high court praying to allow the girl to sit in the class VIII examination to be held by State Board.
Hearing the matter, Justice Bansi Lal Bhat of Jammu and Kashmir high court has issued directions to the secretary of school education and secretary of BOSE to take a decision on her plea within two weeks
An orphan, she was gang-raped in July 2011 prompting a local court to hand her custody over to Neha Ghar, a short-stay shelter home for distressed women run by the Association for Social Health (AFSH). The court had also passed directions to the in-charge of Neha Ghar that nobody should be allowed to meet the girl without the permission of the court.
Since there was a court direction, the girl was unable to attend a formal school. Though she was only educated till second standard, the NGO arranged tuitions for the girl and therefore was prepared enough to sit in the class VIII examination.
"She is now 16-year-old and wants to study. She is so passionate about her education that she threatened to jump from the roof if she was not admitted in the school. For the last few years she has been receiving private tuitions. And now the NGO has filed the petition that that the girl should sit in the middle standard examination", Sheikh Shakeel Ahmad, counsel for the AFSH, told dna.
Shakeel noted that they have prayed before the court that she be permitted to sit in the class VIII because she has been receiving the private tuitions in Neha Ghar and her age is now 16 years.
"She has studied upto the second standard. We have prayed before the court that since the girl has been receiving education from private tutors, she is ready to sit in class VIII examination and her age is now 16 years", he said.
Hearing the matter, the high court gave directions to the secretary BOSE and secretary school education to take a decision within two weeks. "The high court directed the secretary education and secretary BOSE to take compassionate view as a special case being a victim of the gang-rape", Shakeel said.
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