Guwahati: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday expressed concern over the rise in crimes against women in Assam but described the situation as better on the issue of rights violations. "The data available with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that Assam is ranked second in the country in the category of crime against women. Most of the cases are related to kidnapping, rape and cases of...
03:02 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: To tackle overcrowding in prisons across the country, the National Human Rights Commission has suggested holding of night courts in jails for trial of petty offences. NHRC Chairperson KG Balakrishnan said various strategies could be employed to bring down the prison population like ensuring that police does not make any arrest indiscriminately and also providing legal aid to the poor. He said the number of undertrial prisoners is...
09:40 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Controversies over land acquisition and labour unrest involving big businesses have prompted the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to come up with a "code of ethics" for corporates. A draft report in this respect has been submitted to the NHRC by New Delhi-based Institute of Corporate Sustainability Management (ICSM) Trust and has been perused by the Commission. NHRC had commissioned a study - 'Developing Code of Ethics for...
11:50 AM, Apr 29, 2012
London: Nearly 1,000 women and girls in Pakistan were victims of honour killings during 2011, a human rights group said. At least 943 women were killed last year by their fathers, husbands or brothers for allegedly damaging their family name. Ninety-three of those killed were minors. However, the true number of those killed is thought to be far higher. Many cases are thought to have been covered up by relatives...
08:53 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued notices to Director General of Tamil Nadu Police and Chennai District Magistrate asking them to investigate the death of five suspected burglars in a police encounter. The direction came after the commission received a complaint on the basis of media reports regarding the Chennai encounter on Thursday in which the police killed five persons suspected to be involved in...
01:45 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Human Rights Commission pulled up the Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday for the police brutality on protesting Bhopal gas victims. Taking suo motto cognizance of the police lathicharge on the protestors on December 3, the HRC has asked the state government to submit a detailed report on the incident. The gas victims through their protest, were demanding an adequate compensation from Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide. The...
09:26 AM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: Startling facts coming to light during Mental Health awareness week. A new study says that almost four crore Indians suffer from mental illnesses and there's an extreme shortage of psychiatrists. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the number of suicides in India could be reduced by at least one-fourth if counselling is given on time. But there's an alarming shortage of trained psychiatrists. Arpita Anand, a...
09:46 AM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has failed to respond within the deadline set by the National Human Rights Commission on the Bhatta-Parsaul violence, thus delaying finalisation of the rights body's report on the issue. According to NHRC officials, the deadline ended over a month ago and the Commission will finalise the report on the police firing and allegations of rape in two villages of Greater Noida during the farmers'...
10:22 AM, Sep 25, 2011
New Delhi: More than 2,000 corpses have been found buried in several unmarked graves in Indian Kashmir, believed to be victims of the divided region's separatist revolt, a government human rights commission said in a report. The graves were found in dozens of villages near the Line of Control, the military line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. "At 38 places visited in north Kashmir, there were 2,156 unidentified dead...
11:31 PM, Aug 21, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued notices to Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and Director General of Police regarding the arrest of a senior journalist who reported about the death of deputy CMO Y S Sachan. Issuing notices, the NHRC asked the Chief Secretary and DGP to submit detailed reports in the matter within a week. A spokesperson said the Commission received two complaints regarding the...
06:06 PM, Jun 28, 2011
Lucknow: Taking suo motu cognisance of rape cases in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, the State Human Rights Commission has sought a reply from the government and the police. SHRC member Justice Vishnu Sahai has issued notice to the chief secretary, principal secretary, home, director general of police and SP and SSPs of districts where rape cases have taken place in the last few days, official sources said on Tuesday....
12:21 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Tamil Nadu government to submit a report within four weeks on the alleged thrashing of a Dalit boy for fetching water from a public tap. It has also asked the government what steps are being taken to prevent "such acts of discrimination against Dalits". The NHRC said it has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report alleging that the...
10:05 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Lakhimpur: The family of the 14-year-old teenage girl who was found hanging from a tree inside the premises of Nighasan Police Station in Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh, is shattered. They allege that she was raped by several policemen and murdered after she strayed into the Police Station premises while tending to cattle. Her mother said, "I saw that two policemen came out and threw her body outside." Eleven police officers and ...
09:13 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Lakhimpur: The family of the 14-year-old teenage girl who was found hanging from a tree inside the premises of Nighasan Police Station in Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh, is shattered. They allege that she was raped by several policemen and murdered after she strayed into the Police Station premises while tending to cattle. Her mother said, "I saw that two policemen came out and threw her body outside." Eleven police officers and...
09:13 PM, Jun 12, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission on Monday issued notices to the Central and Delhi governments seeking reports within two weeks on the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev's supporters at Ramilila ground in New Delhi. According to the rights panel, it has issued notices to the Union Home Secretary, Delhi Chief Secretary and the city Commissioner of Police calling for reports. Over 60 people, mostly supporters of Baba Ramdev,...
04:54 PM, Jun 06, 2011
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