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NHRC finds 16 women victims of rape, assault by police personnel in Chhatt
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bastar (Chhattisgarh) [India], Jan. 8 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has prima facie found 16 women victims of rape, sexual and physical assault by the state police personnel in Chhattisgarh's tribal Bastar region.
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Chhattisgarh: NHRC finds 16 women victims of rape, sexual physical assault
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 7(ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday found 16 women prima facie victims of rape, sexual and physical assault by police personnel in Chhattisgarh, and asked the state government why it should not recommend interim relief of Rs 37 lakh to the
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Gujarat: NHRC issues notice over victimization of Dalit prisoners in Amrel
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Saurashtra [India], Jan. 6 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued a notice to the Inspector General (Prisons), Gujarat over victimization of Dalit prisoners by upper castes inmates in Amreli district jail.
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Delhi fruit vendor killed: NHRC issues notice to Commissioner
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 2 (ANI): A day after it was reported that a fruit vendor has allegedly died in police custody and his body was later dumped, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took suo motu cognizance of the incident and issued a notice to the Delhi Police Commissioner, aski
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Telangana: NHRC issues notice over child's death after falling in hot
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 28 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that five-year-old child Jayawardhan tumbled into a vat filled to the brim with hot sambar at the time of serving the mid-day meal in a primary school at Nalgonda in Telanga
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Justice Sathasivam urges Centre to amend law to make NHRC effective
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 10 (ANI): Former Chief Justice of India and Governor of Kerala Justice P. Sathasivam on Saturday lack of awareness about laws, inadequacies of the legal system and lack of sufficient support from the legal services authorities need to be focused on to ensure protectio
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Create society which respects, protects human rights: Dattu
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 9 (ANI): On the eve of Human Rights Day, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairperson Justice H.L. Dattu called on the people of the nation to join hands to create a society in which human rights of every individual are respected and protected in our quest for
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ACHR welcomes NHRC recommendation in Bara massacre case
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.29 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to commute the death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir K
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NHRC organises two-day workshop on 'Good Governance in Meghalaya
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 3 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday organised a two day regional workshop on 'Good Governance, Development and Human Rights' in collaboration with the Government of Meghalaya at State Convention Centre in Shillong starting today,
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You can't kill people with steel plates, says SC lawyer Tulsi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.2 (ANI): Describing the encounter killing of eight SIMI terrorists as "fake", senior supreme court lawyer K.T.S. Tulsi has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to leave no stone unturned in probing the matter.
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NHRC issue notices to MP Govt., DGP over killing of eight SIMI terrorists
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov. 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Madhya Pradesh Government, Chief Secretary and state police after eight activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI,) who had escaped from the Central Jai
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NHRC says it has disposed 111, 295 cases in last year
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.21 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission Chairman Justice H.L. Dattu on Friday said that the institution has disposed of 111, 295 cases, out of which 59,924 had to be dismissed in limini, as these were not in line with the provisions of the protection of the PHR Act
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