NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has shaped a seven-member committee to research complaints of post-poll violence in West Bengal, in compliance with the dictates of Calcutta high court.
The panel is led by NHRC member Rajeev Jain and comprises National Commission for Minorities vice-chairperson Atif Rasheed, National Commission for Women manhood Rajulben L Desai, West Bengal State Human Rights Commission registrar Pradip Kumar Panja Amongst Others.
Calcutta high court dismisses Bengal authorities’order remember’ pleaEarlier now, the Calcutta high court disregarded the West Bengal government’s request for remembering its own order that led the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to analyze all instances of alleged human rights violations within post-poll violence from the country.
A five-judge seat of the high court disregarded the prayer of the West Bengal government for remembering that the order passed in regard to a whole lot of PILs alleging displacement of individuals from their homes, bodily attack, destruction of land and ransacking of areas of business because of post- poll violence from the united states.
The seat had passed the order on June 18, using a report filed by the participant secretary of West Bengal State Legal Services Authority that stated that 3,243 individuals were reported to be more changed until noon of June 10.
The five-judge seat, such as acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and justices IP Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen along with Subrata Talukdar, had in its sequence led the chairperson of the NHRC to make a committee to analyze the issue.
Governor slams’ostrich-like position’ of their Bengal administrationWest Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has predicted the situation resulting from the alleged post-poll violence from the country because”alarming and painful”.
The governor questioned leader minister Mamata Banerjee because of her”ostrich-like position” on the matter.
Dhankhar, that awakened a week-long trip to North Bengal earlier in the afternoon, slammed against the state authorities for the way that it coped with complaints of violence after the elections.
“I’m concerned about the post-poll violence occurring in West Bengal after May 2.
That is unacceptable.
The problem in the country is alarming and painful.
This type of violence has placed a question mark about the democratic setup.
“Even after a lot of months, the state government is in denial mode.
Why would be the main minister silent about this matter? The ostrich-like position of the state government isn’t okay,” he explained.
(With inputs from agencies)
NHRC Kinds 7-member Board to Research post-poll violence in West Bengal
