India, Aug. 20 -- The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the expert committee to file a note indicating the steps adopted by it to assess and conclude that an eight-year-old autistic girl is medically fit to be admitted to GD Goenka School, provided she is supported by a shadow teacher.

A bench comprising Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela issued the directive after GD Goenka's lawyer argued that the expert committee's report was flawed, biased, and prepared without allowing its counsellor to interact with the child. The counsel further submitted that the assessment was done in a closed room environment rather than in a setting where the child might have been exposed to potential autistic triggers.

In response, ...