In a big relief to the Police, the Delhi High Court today refused to direct a judicial probe into the controversial Batla House encounter here, in which two suspected terrorists and a police officer were killed, by accepting the NHRC report giving a clean chit to the cops.
The two women, who had earned their daily bread selling lottery tickets on the streets of Kochi, were allegedly sacrificed by the accused to settle their financial issues and bring prosperity in life, police said.
It says P C Sharma had 'connived' with the NDA government on the Babri Masjid demolition case as well as on the investigation into the Tehelka expose.
According to the Association of the Parents of Disappeared Persons, more than 8,000 people have disappeared so far from the state.
The apex court dismissed the plea stating that the matter was being looked into by the National Human Rights Commission.
Danseuse Mallika Sarabhai, noted Bengali litterateur Mahashweta Devi and ad guru Alyque Padamsee have sought an independent inquiry into the Gujarat riots.
The Centre has appointed a commission headed by former CJI K G Balakrishnan to examine the matter of giving Scheduled Caste status to new people who claim to "historically" have belonged to the Scheduled Castes but have converted to a religion other than those mentioned in the presidential orders.
The apex human rights body in the country said the encounter was a matter of concern and needed to be probed carefully.
A distinguished jurist and former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, 75-year-old Venkatachaliah was presented the prestigious Padma Vibhushan by President Kalam.
Captain Dalip Singh, father of Baljit Singh alias Bhau, has also appealed to the President, Prime Minister, the Supreme Court, the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the National Human Rights Commission for justice to his son. He told a news conference in Patiala that the Delhi Police arrested Baljit, an executive member of the Simranjit Singh Mann-led Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), from Model Town area in north Delhi on December 31.
He said the Delhi High court ought to have waited for the copy of the judgement in the Jessica Lal case to come out instead of taking cognisance solely on the basis of news reports.
Taking a serious view of unabated violence in Nandigram, the National Human Rights Commission on Monday sought a report from the West Bengal government on the situation in the area and asked the Union Home Ministry to take steps to restore peace in the trouble-torn parts of the state.
The appointment of the retired chief justice of India was cleared by the President on Tuesday.
Vijay Goel, former minister of state attached to the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government when the latter was prime minister, moved the National Human Rights Commission against the menace of the Blueline buses.
Man Singh (58), a head warden, died on Tuesday night at his quarters inside the jail. He had been under treatment for tuberculosis for the last several years, prison officials said.
It asked the Haryana government to submit a report on the case of a village panchayat there allegedly asking a married couple to treat each other as brother and sister.
The NHRC counsel told this to a SC bench, which was hearing amicus curiae Harish Salve's plea for transfer of trials of cases to 14 serious cases of massacre outside Gujarat.
In the suicide note, Bansal has alleged that a CBI DIG, two women officers, and a "fat" havildar of the agency had "tortured" his wife and daughter after which they ended their lives.
The National Human Rights Commission issued a notice to the West Bengal government and the state's police chief on Thursday in connection with the killing of eight people in Birbhum district, and sought a report within four weeks, detailing the steps taken to ensure the safety of people, officials said.
The Asian Centre for Human Rights has in its report stated that the National Commission for Minorities is communalising the riots in Assam.
Buddhia's cartilages could face serious wear and tear, ultimately affecting his normal growth.
Anka Toppo had been selected for admission in the MBBS course at AIIMS in 1989 and was to take his final examinations in 1993 when he developed problems in his eyes and became blind.
The National Human Rights Commission will look into cases of communal riots in Muzaffarnagar once the situation returns to normal, NHRC Chairperson K G Balakrishnan said.
Key Best Bakery witness Zaheera Sheikh had moved the apex Court seeking retrial of the case at any place outside Gujarat.
A trial court has acquitted twenty-one accused in the Bakery case earlier.
The Gauhati high court on Tuesday asked the Assam government to file a detailed affidavit on the police encounters that have been taking place since the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in the state in May 2021.
National Human Rights Commission chairman Justice A S Anand on Monday declined to comment on the Bharatiya Janata Party's criticism of the NHRC's move to seek a retrial in the Best Bakery and four other Gujarat riots case.
The state government is believed to be upset with the NHRC for moving the SC for a retrial outside Gujarat.
The Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Tripura's capital Agartala on Tuesday announced the suspension of all visa and consular services with immediate effect until further notice because of 'security reasons', a day after the mission's premises was breached by a group of people protesting against the arrest of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das in Dhaka.
'A government whose policies are focused around making the life of ordinary citizens, specially the most deprived sections, richer; a government that prioritises education, health and transport, that doesn't treat its citizens as subjects who must come to it for everything, is rare in our country.' 'When such a government is thrown out, one is left stunned,' notes Jyoti Punwani.
"You (Centre) will be in trouble if we start hearing this matter and pass some order. We are granting you four weeks to appoint the members. We hope and expect that the process of appointment of members can be concluded in four weeks," the bench said.
'The rhetoric of the right wing is creating such a situation. They are inspiring youngsters to such action by their speeches.'
"I have written to the President seeking justice," said the aggrieved son.
Manorama was reportedly picked up from her house on July 10 by Assam Rifles jawans and her body was found hours later with bullet wounds.
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