‘No child to be deprived of education’
An order which could justify and reinforce the faith of parents’ in the Right to Education (RTE), additional sessions judge Kamini Lau of the Rohini court in an order has said that no child should be deprived of right to education just because the father is in judicial custody.
Dr Lau said that “free and compulsory education for children is a Constitutional obligation of the state as provided under the Article 45 of the Constitution of India. Therefore, no child under the age of 14 years should be deprived of the primary education only because his father is in judicial incarceration”.
The court directed the Delhi police to ensure that the five-year-old child of an undertrial prisoner Mukesh Kumar is admitted to a school. The court also made it clear that under these circumstances it is the primary obligation to ensure that the child of Mukesh should have an access to primary education.
Mukesh, who has been in judicial custody since February last year in a criminal case, filed an application through his counsel Tripurari Tiwari seeking interim bail in order to get his five-year-old son admitted to a school.
After the court pronounced the order, Ashok Aggarwal, lawyer who is championing the cause of the schoolchildren, talking to this newspaper over phone, said, “The court has passed an excellent judgment. It will give a right message in the society. The court has passed the order in the right direction.”
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If every citizen of this
Shyam Chhabra
04 Aug 2010 - 04:52
If every citizen of this country is given a duty or social obligation as we pay our tax from the money earned same way we should impart education from what we have learnt to educate at least one child in his life time other than his own family then the illiteracy can be completely eradicated.
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