New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Bihar government's stand on a plea for a CBI probe into the police firing on a group of villagers in Forbesganj in June that left five persons dead. A bench of justices RM Lodha and JS Khehar issued notice to the state government, seeking its response to the plea for CBI probe into the incident. The plea was made by a...
01:13 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: Hours after Anna Hazare was taken into preventive custody, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued notices to the Union Home Secretary and the Delhi Police Commissioner seeking a report within two weeks on the episode. The Commission notice came this evening after it received a complaint from a human rights activist Anirudhasudhan Chakraborty, who alleged that provisions of Constitution and international human rights conventions were...
06:19 PM, Aug 16, 2011
Chennai: The DMK on Friday knocked on the doors of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to register its protest against the State government's crackdown against its party members over alleged land grab. DMK functionary KS Radhakrishnan complained to the NHRC that the State government had resorted to "action that displayed political bias, vendetta and personal animosity, which despite being brought to the notice of the government" have continued. The...
10:25 AM, Aug 06, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ruled out rape at Lakhimpur Kheri police station and at Bhatta-Parsaul villages. An 800-page interim report on Bhatta-Parsaul says no rapes took place - contrary to Rahul Gandhi's claims. The report, submitted on Monday, also states that farmers hadn't lost their lives in numbers as claimed by the Congress General Secretary. The findings of this NHRC report are a relief for...
08:13 AM, Jun 23, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission today said it will send a team for conducting an on-the-spot inquiry into alleged police firing and killing of four persons in Forbesganj in Bihar on June 3. The rights panel has asked its Director General (Investigation) to depute a team to the area in Araria district of the state. Four persons, including a woman and a baby, were killed in police firing...
06:53 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Lucknow: Under attack over the murder of a teenaged girl in a police station in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh charging various national commissions with behaving like political parties. National Commission for Women and National Human Rights Commission have voiced concern over the murder of the girl and NHRC has sent a fact-finding team to Lakhimpur Kheri....
06:35 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Lucknow: The alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl inside a police station in Lakhimpur district in Uttar Pradesh is slowly turning into a political battle between the Congress and the Mayawati government. The Congress on Monday attacked the Mayawati government over the alleged rape and murder case and claimed that the authorities were trying to shield the accused and the investigation into the case was a cover-up. The ...
01:10 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Lucknow: The alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl inside a police station in Lakhimpur district in Uttar Pradesh is slowly turning into a political battle between the Congress and the Mayawati government. The Congress on Monday attacked the Mayawati government over the alleged rape and murder case and claimed that the authorities were trying to shield the accused and the investigation into the case was a cover-up. The...
01:10 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Geneva: The accreditation of India's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to come up for renewal before the United Nations (UN) on Monday. The UN meeting in being held in Geneva to look at functioning of human rights commissions across the world. The UN will also examine the corruption charges made against NHRC Chairman and former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan. Different civil society groups have sent these complaints against...
10:49 AM, May 23, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Chief Justic of India KG Balakrishnan does a U-turn on disclosing his assets. Justic Balakrishnan has informed the Inecome Tax Department that he does not want to disclose his assets because it is not related to public welfare in any way. Under intense pressure, former CJI and the current NHRC chief had early this month agreed to publicise details of his assets. The ex-CJI has faced allegations that...
01:41 PM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up convenor of NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, Teesta Setalvad, for sending communications addressed to the special investigating team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots to the UN Human Rights Commission. The SIT, headed by former CBI director RK Raghavan, is investigating the 2002 Godhra and post-Godhra riots. The apex court's special bench headed by Justice DK Jain said: "We don't...
04:56 PM, Jan 20, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: His family and its new found riches is becoming a headache for the former Chief Justice of India and NHRC Chairperson KG Balakrishnan. The problem tree for the NHRC chairperson is growing with more reports of dubious land deals and more details of unaccounted wealth of his family members coming out. The latest one involving his second son-in-law Advocate NJ Benny. KG Balakrishnan's brother KG Bhaskaran stepped down as...
09:19 PM, Jan 05, 2011
The aerial spraying of Endosulfan over plantations in Kazargode in Kerala for more than two decades has not only crippled many lives but also wiped out local wildlife. As the cry for a ban on endosulfan gets louder, National Human Rights Commission Chairman KG Balakrishnan is expected to visit Kasargod to take stock of the situation. Exposure to the deadly pesticide Endosulfan made kasargod’s Mohammad Shaji bedridden and completely dependent...
11:13 AM, Dec 18, 2010
The former CJI says there are adequate safeguards provided in the law with regard to capital punishment. ...
01:59 PM, Aug 01, 2010
Media reports carried photographs of security men carrying dead Naxals with hands and feet tied to bamboo poles. ...
06:13 PM, Jun 29, 2010
In his dying declaration Janeshwar Sharma had named Anil Nanda and his three aides for harassing him. ...
09:16 AM, Jun 19, 2010
65-year-old Balakrishnan will be the 6th chairperson of the Commission and will have a tenure of five years. ...
03:47 PM, Jun 03, 2010
A police inspector and two suspected terrorists were killed in the shootout. ...
07:49 PM, Aug 26, 2009
They allege the Commission has just put across a police version. ...
01:27 AM, Jul 24, 2009
Two suspected terrorists and a cop were killed in the encounter. ...
06:37 PM, Jul 22, 2009
