New Delhi, April 22 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by the Unnao rape survivor seeking to introduce additional evidence to establish her age through school records, ruling that the case should be decided on the basis of evidence already on record.

A bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Justice Madhu Jain was hearing the survivor application that sought the court's permission to further examine two witnesses from the Uttar Pradesh school where she studied, including its principal Arun Kumar Singh and assistant teacher Virender Singh.

The court said that a letter from the survivor's school clearly stated that no documents, including a birth certificate, were submitted at the time of her admission, as such documents...