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Despite state human rights commission chairman B Subhasan Reddyâs order to admit nine-year old girl monk Shambavi in a school, her parents refused to do so, stating that she had already been admitted in a Vedic school.
Her mother Usha Rani faxed a letter to Kurnool Collector office on Tuesday that Shambhavi was being trained in Buddhist philosophy at Dharamshala in Dalai Lama’s ashram. She is planning to challenge the commission’s decision in the High Court. “She knows English, French, Vedas and astrology. Merely mechanically sending the girl to a school does not mean she will be educated,” said P Vishnuvardhan Reddy, Sambhavi’s lawyer.
Acting on SHRC directives Collector Ramasankar Naik directed the Nandyal Tahasildar and mandal education officer to find about whereabouts of Shambavi to admit her in a school. But the officials submitted a report to Ramasankar Naik that Shambavi and her parents were missing in Nandyal. He said that he came to know that Shambavi and her mother Usharani had left their cottage a week ago and the same would be reported to the SHRC.