Girl injured in Delhi school to get Rs.3 lakh
May 4th, 2011 - 10:53 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, May 4 (IANS) A Class 11 girl student, whose eye was injured in a stone pelting incident in her school, will be paid an ex-gratia of Rs.3 lakh and the cost of her medical treatment by the Delhi government, the high court ordered Wednesday.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna ruled: “The state government should give Rs.3 lakh as an ex-gratia amount to the girl, which will be deposited in her name in a bank.”
Saima Khan, of Vishwamitra Government Sarvodaya Girls Senior Secondary School, was injured March 1 when some boys started pelting stones and she got hit.
The bench converted a letter, written by an NGO, into a petition alleging that the school principal had failed to provide immediate treatment to the student and her father being a poor man could not afford her eye treatment.
The court also asked the government to depute two policewomen in all of the girls’ government schools.
“The lady home guards will remain present throughout the school hours,” the court said.
Meanwhile, the court also directed the government that the victim “be treated as handicapped to avail other facilities”.
The bench asked the government to pay the amount within four weeks.
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