Pune, April 30 (IANS) Panic spread across the Kondhwa area of Maharashtra’s Pune on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday after a hazardous gas leak was reported from a storage tank at a chemical facility near Gangadham Chowk.According to officials, at least 17 people initially complained of breathing difficulties and were subsequently hospitalised, but the number can increase.Preliminary findings indicate that the leak originated from a cylinder containing chlorine gas that had repo…
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New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) An interlocutory application has been moved before the Supreme Court in a pending petition concerning alleged electoral violence in West Bengal, seeking the constitution of a high-level monitoring committee headed by a retired apex court judge to oversee law and order arrangements during and after the ongoing Assembly elections. The plea contended that despite assurances allegedly given by the West Bengal government before the Supreme Court, incidents of violence, inti…
Mumbai, April 29 (IANS) Vishwa Hindu Parishad President and Senior Advocate Alok Kumar has raised serious concerns regarding recent observations made by Justice Atul Sreedharan of the Allahabad High Court, calling for judicial restraint to maintain institutional balance. The controversy stems from a case involving the Teachers Association Madaris Arabia and the National Human Rights Commission, where the commission had directed an inquiry into alleged financial mismanagement and infrastructure d…
Prayagraj/New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court has differed over observations made against the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in a case concerning an inquiry into alleged irregularities involving hundreds of madrassas in Uttar Pradesh. The matter came up before a Division Bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Vivek Saran in a writ petition filed by the Teachers Association, Madaris Arabia and others challenging proceedings arising out of an NHRC compla…
Bhubaneswar, April 29 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Keonjhar Collector and Superintendent of Police (SP) to initiate an inquiry into an incident in which a tribal man exhumed and carried his sister’s skeletal remains to a bank after officials allegedly demanded a death certificate and a legal heir certificate to process a death claim. Acting on a petition filed by noted rights activist Manoj Jena on April 28, the apex rights body has also asked the Keonjha…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) A plea has been moved before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) alleging large-scale illegal detentions, constitutional violations, and labour rights abuses by Uttar Pradesh Police following the protests by factory workers and migrant labourers in Noida over minimum wage demands earlier this month.Filed by Advocate Subhash Chandran K.R., the complaint has raised serious concerns over the report…
Dhaka, April 28 (IANS) Alice Edwards, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, highlighted the absence of an “A-status” National Human Rights Commission in Bangladesh and a national preventive mechanism against custodial torture, describing violence in the country as deeply embedded, systemic, and enduring, local media reported. She made the remarks while speaking at a consultation meeting on strengthening prevention and accountability frameworks for torture in Bangladesh, held at t…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Delhi government and 21 state governments to take proactive measures and implement relief efforts to protect vulnerable populations from the growing threat of heat waves. In communications sent to the Chief Secretaries of the concerned states and Delhi, the apex human rights body stressed the urgent need for integrated and inclusive measures to mitigate the impact of extreme heat and prevent casualties.The st…
Bhubaneswar, April 27 (IANS) The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has issued a notice to the Odisha Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes Development, Minorities and Backward Classes Welfare Department, as well as to the Collector and Superintendent of Police of Mayurbhanj, seeking an Action Taken Report on the death of a tribal minor student and the mass illness of students at an ashram school in the district due to suspected food poisoning. Acting o…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report regarding the alleged public humiliation of a woman in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district, where she was paraded by villagers with her husband on her shoulders over allegations of elopement. Observing that the contents of the news report, if true, raise serious issues of human rights violations, the NHRC has issued notices to the Jhabua District Magistrate and the Superintendent…