The Delhi HC has expressed displeasure over a play school for asking parents of a boy to withdraw him as he came to school having the catheter attached with him to drain the urine.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has expressed displeasure over a popular play school here for asking parents of a boy, suffering from anorectal disorder, to withdraw their ward as he was attending the school having the catheter attached with him to drain the urine.
"This is unfortunate and should not have happened," a division bench of Chief Justice MK Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna said on Wednesday and issued notices to the Centre and the NCT through its Chief Secretary.
Directing both the governments to explore all possibilities to take appropriate step to avoid such incidents in future, the bench also issued notice to the principal of the play school 'Mother's Pride', West Patel Nagar and asked all of them to file their replies by September 19.
The parents of four-year-old Vishesh were asked on July 25 by the Mother's Pride to withdraw the child from the school, saying that he came to the school with having the catheter attached to his appendix, which was scaring other children in the school.
According to the parents, Vishesh had undergone a surgery due to a neurogenic bladder, which is an inability to pass urine without using catheter.
The Court was hearing a PIL filed by an advocate Rakesh Prabhakar, accusing the school authorities of adopting discriminatory attitude.
Prabhakar sought direction to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) to organise workshops or seminars in the educational institutions with a view to train the teachers to deal with the children suffering from anorectal disorder.
He also sought directions to HRD ministry to issue guidelines to schools in the city to employ persons who are trained enough to take care of children of such kind.
He also sought the governments to include this disorder in the category of 'disabilities' under the Disabilities Act.
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