New Delhi, July 23: No child should be deprived of right to education just because the father is in judicial custody, a Delhi court has said.
“Free and compulsory education for children is a Constitutional obligation of the state as provided under Article 45 of the Constitution of India and therefore no child under the age of 14 years should be deprived of the primary eduction only because his father is in judicial incarceration,” Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau said.
The court passed these observations while directing Delhi police to help undertrial prisoner Mukesh Kumar ensure that his five-year-old son is admitted to a school.
“Under these circumstances it is the primary obligation to ensure that the child of Mukesh should have an access to primary eduction,” the court said.
–Agencies