The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed deep concern over the tragic death of six sanitation workers who were trapped inside an under-construction septic tank at Gaud Karlakhunta village under Madanpur-Rampur block in Odisha's Kalahandi district on May 26.
The direction follows the massive landslide triggered by incessant rains in which 35 devotees lost their lives at Adhkuwari, Katra, on 26 August 2025, allegedly due to criminal negligence of the officials.
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Odisha police to submit an action taken report on the alleged stripping and parading of migrant workers from West Bengal, with their hands tied by a group of locals in Sundargarh district.
With several villages in the Keonjhar district, Orissa’s mining heartland, languishing in utter neglect and people denied of basic amenities of human life, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought for Action Taken Report (ATR) from the district collector on the alleged miserable living condition of people living the mineral-rich belt.
The tribunal has directed the government to submit the ATR on the dumping ground of 100 bigha land, where Howrah city’s municipal waste have been dumped for years, by 23 May.
At least 20 people from the Chikiti area were hospitalised after allegedly drinking country liquor sold near Moundpur on 20 August.
The apex rights body expressed concern over poor security arrangements in the hospitals of the national capital highlighted by a media report.
The NHRC passed the order acting on a petition filed by human right lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice and sought for Action Taken Report (ATR) from the Odisha jail administration in an incident pertaining to a male under-trial slitting his genitals by a steel stand of mosquito coils at Bhadrak district jail in October.
The Juang tribes are meted out a raw deal both by the state as well as Central government authorities despite being a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG).
