Chandigarh: Expressing ignorance over any notice from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), authorities from teenaged molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra's school said Friday that they had not received any such communication.
"So far we have not received any notice from CBSE. I had even talked to the principal of the school sister Sebestina but she has also not got any notice. I only read about this in today's newspapers but I don't know from where the media got this information," father Thomas Anchanikal, vicar-general and spokesperson for the Chandigarh-Shimla diocese, told IANS Friday.
CBSE, New Delhi, had Thursday issued a notice to Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School here in Sector 26, asking it to explain why it should not be dis-affiliated for expelling Ruchika from the school.
This leading all-girls Chandigarh school, which is governed by the Chandigarh-Shimla diocese, was held guilty of expelling Ruchika in September 1990, one month after she was molested by former Haryana director general of police (DGP) SPS Rathore.
"Once we get any notice we will submit an appropriate reply to the concerned authorities. But right now, I do not want to comment on this issue," said Anchanikal.
A magisterial inquiry ordered by the Chandigarh administration had last month held the school guilty of being unfair in expelling the teenaged molestation victim for fee default in September 1990.
The Chandigarh administration also withdrew the state award given in 2005 to Sacred Heart's present principal Sister Sebestina. She was the principal of the school in 1990 as well.
