Arun Chandra Upadhyay, J.

1. This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed by the petitioners above named, claiming compensation of Rs. 25,00,000/- (rupees twenty-five lakhs) under the public law remedy for violation of fundamental rights and for committing rape on the victim i.e. petitioner No. 1 by respondent No. 6, Shri H.S. Tewari, the then Principal, Jawahar Novodaya Vidyalaya, Kakraban, South Tripura District, when she was residing in the boarding school, run by the Novodaya Vidyalaya Samity, a Government of India undertaking. The petitioners have also prayed for initiating appropriate action against the respondents in terms of the direction issued by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Bishakha & Ors. v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. reported in (1997) 6 SCC 241. The petitioner No. 2, namely, the Tripura Commission for Women, which has been created in terms of the provisions of Section 11(1) of the Tripura Commission for Women Act, 1993 (in short, the Act). The Commission, being empowered to take up cases of violation of the constitutional and other rights relating to women in the State with the appropriate authority, in terms of the provisions