Chandigarh, Nov. 3 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed Haryana government to ensure all schools put in place mechanism and the internal committee to deal with complaints of bullying and harassment on the basis of gender, gender identity and sexual orientation.

The high court bench of justice Manisha Batra further ordered that such complaints should be dealt with promptly and confidentially, and that the cases in which a cognizable offence reported police are involved and the complaint dealt with requirement of the law.

The court was dealing with a petition seeking Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into death of a child who was allegedly humiliated, bullied and also physically as well as sexually assaulted in a sc...