NHRC takes notes of death of workers at a chemical factory
The Commission has sought a detailed report from the CS and the DGP in the matter within four weeks.
The Commission has sought a detailed report from the CS and the DGP in the matter within four weeks.
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 summons comes in response to a complaint filed on September 14, 2021 by Shruti Nagvanshi and Shirin Shabana Khan on the behalf of Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and Savitri Bai Phule Mahila Panchayat of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
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).
According to reports, by the time people rushed to help the victims, they were charred to death.
The apex human rights watchdog passed this order acting on a petition filed by Supreme Court Lawyer and Rights Activist Radhakanta Tripathy.
The Commission acting on a petition filed by rights activist and Supreme Court lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy passed the order and directed its Registry to transmit the copy of the complaint to the concerned authority calling for an action taken report within four weeks.
The three women from the primitive Juanga tribe had come in contact with live electric wires left carelessly dangling in the air inside a jungle near their Tangiri Juangsahi village in the Telkoi area on 22 October and died on the spot.
Acting on a petition filed by rights activist and Supreme Court lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy, the NHRC issued notice and sought for the replies from the authorities concerned within four weeks.
The victim was arrested on 23 October 2022 at midnight without following due process of law by the police and taken to the Bhadrak district,
