CHRI urges NHRC, state govt to set up human rights commission in NagalandUnderlining the restrictions on NHRC’s ability to act on complaints involving the defence forces, CHRI pointed out that Section 19 of PoHRA...
Maha rights body gives clean chit to Cooper hospital, Mumbai Police over morgue access to Rhea ChakrabortyManeshinde will file a plea for urgent hearing so that the matter can be heard tomorrow.
Sushant death: Rhea at NCB office for 2nd round of questioning; Maha rights body seeks report from Cooper hospital over mortuary accessRajput's friend Rohini Iyer, a film PR honcho, is being quizzed by the CBI.
Sushant Singh Rajput death probe: Show-cause notice to Mumbai Police, Cooper hospital over mortuary access to Rhea ChakrabortyThe 45-minute mortuary access to Chakraborty has now come under the scanner.
Vikas Dubey tried to escape, police fired in self-defence, UP govt tells Supreme CourtThe UP government has constituted a 3-member SIT, headed by UP additional chief secretary Sanjay Bhoosreddy on July 11, to look into the cr...
State human rights commissions asked to join common NHRC portalNHRC Chairman HL Dattu on Thursday asked all state human rights commissions to join its common portal to avoid duplication of complaint reg...
Panel recommends DNA profiling of bodies in unmarked graves in Rajouri, Poonch"In Rajouri, there are 594 graves which are unidentified and unmarked. So, there are 2,080 graves which are unmarked," Justice Nazki said i...
Rights body tells J&K to pay Rs 10 lakh to 'human shield' Farooq Ahmad Dar"I have no doubt in my mind that Farooq Ahmad was subjected to torture and humiliation, besides (being) wrongly confined," the judgement sa...
Supreme Court questions Centre over human rights panel in DelhiA bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur rejected the submission of Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar that Delhi being a Union Territory doe...
SC quizzes Centre over setting up of SHRC in national capitalThe petitioner contended that despite Delhi government completing the formalities and sending recommendation to the Lieutenant Governor, th...
61 custodial deaths in Gujarat in 2011-12: State Human Rights CommissionOf the total deaths in police or judicial custody, 51 were cases of natural deaths, while seven were suicides and three were unnatural or d...
Delhi government to set up State Human Rights CommissionDelhi government will set up its first State Human Rights Commission after the Chief Justice of India expressed concern over absence of suc...
Bengaluru colleges may have fooled overstaying African studentsGueye is among the many foreign nationals in Bengaluru who are lured by colleges actively recruiting students for courses with an 'affordab...
Bengaluru: Inmates forced into having sex; SHRC wants thorough probeA full week after the allegations became public, the government inquiry into the issue has not even begun.
- Custodial torture, death; Supreme Court to consider suggestions of amicus
Singhvi suggested that states with the concurrence of the Chief Justices of High Courts should constitute human rights courts in districts.
- Repealing AFSPA to bring normalcy in Kashmir
Recognition of, and some form of reparation for human rights abuses is essential for the process of seeking peace and normalcy in the state.
- Another campus suicide over T-row
A chemical engineering student of Osmania University, the epicentre of Telangana agitation, on Tuesday committed suicide on the varsity cam...