-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The answer of the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) to an RTI (Right to Information) query has revealed a shocker: Gujarat recorded 55 custodial deaths in 2017. Ahmedabad city topped the chart with 15 deaths in custody — two in police custody and 13 at the Sabarmati central jail. The RTI application — filed by a human rights activist from Mehsana, Kaushik Parmar — also revealed that...
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Kashmiri Used as Human Shield by Army Awarded Rs 10 Lakh Compensation for Torture -Mudasir Ahmad
-TheWire.in The State Human Rights Commission stopped short of announcing action against the army, as it lacked jurisdiction. Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s State Human Rights Commission on Monday directed the government to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to Farooq Ahmad Dar, the man who was strapped to an army jeep and paraded around villages as a human shield in Kashmir’s Budgam district on April 9. In a five-page order, commission chairperson Justice...
More »Set up human rights court in each district: SC -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In order to ensure speedy trial in cases of human rights violations, the Supreme Court has asked all the states to set up special courts in each district. It has also directed the state governments to install CCTV cameras in all prisons, apart from police stations, within one year to keep an eye on activities which may lead to human rights violations of inmates. "With regard...
More »NHRC refuses to monitor bureaucrats under anti-riots bill -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), sought to be empowered by the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill to oversee action taken by the states to prevent and control communal violence, has declined to monitor performance of duties by civil servants under the Act, saying that it was for their superiors to do so. The human rights body also insisted that collecting information on communal build-ups...
More »11,820 custodial deaths in five years -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has viewed seriously ineffective implementation of series of directions to curb custodial deaths and sought explanation from the Centre and states after being informed that nearly 12,000 persons died - either in jail or in police stations - in last five years. A bench of Justices S S Nijjar and F M I Kalifulla was pained when amicus curiae A M Singhvi moved...
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