HC tears into Indian Railways over this big problem
The court said a visually or speech impaired person does not require a wheel chair as they walk themselves and need human assistance. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar made the observation while going through a status report filed by the Indian Railways that they were providing wheelchairs to differently-abled persons at the station
Case pertains to a door of a special compartment for the disabled that was shut and it led to a youth missing his MPhil test at the Delhi University in July last year. Image source: Reuters