Tag: NHRC

NHRC asks Odisha to cancel or suspend Apollo Hospital’s license over organ donation fraud.

Source – hindustantimes.com National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Odisha government for an action taken report (ATR) on its three-months-old recommendation to suspend or cancel the registration of Bhubaneswar’s Apollo Hospital for violating the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act. The commission has also asked the government to pay a compensation of

Supreme Court forms 3-member commission to probe Hyderabad encounter.

Source – telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court appointed on Thursday a three-member inquiry commission headed by former apex court judge V. S. Sirpurkar to probe into the circumstances that led to the alleged encounter of the four accused in the gang-rape and murder of a veterinarian in Telangana. The commission, which also includes former Bombay High

Human rights body orders magistrate to file report on discrimination against Dalit children.

Source – newindianexpress.com VIRUDHUNAGAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered Virudhunagar District Magistrate to submit a detailed report on a complaint that alleges 35 Dalit students, who were made to clean school toilets and were beaten up, were not given compensation under the provisions of Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.