India, Sept. 23 -- A division bench of the Delhi high court on Tuesday directed a private school in Model Town area to admit an eight-year-old autistic girl within two weeks, upholding a single-judge order that had earlier mandated her readmission after the institution refused her entry under the Children With Special Needs (CWSN) category.

"The appeal is dismissed with a direction to the school to comply with the order and judgment within two weeks from today," a bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said, rejecting the school's appeal against an earlier single-judge directive for the girl's readmission.

The family of the girl, admitted to the school in 2021, withdrew her in January 2023 after the school alle...