Mann blames it on Badal

CHANDIGARH, Sept 7: Akali Dal Amritsar chief Simranjit Singh Mann today alleged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and the Bharatiya Janata Party were behind the public interest litigation filed against the People8217;s Commission.

Addressing a news conference here, Mann pointed out the Commission had been set up by the human rights organisations in accordance with the UN charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, to which India is a signatory. The Commission was functioning under the best principles of law.

Mann said the finding of the Commission might not be binding on the state but would have strong persuasive and moral value. Such commissions were appointed to expose the war crimes of the Nazis. Then there are the examples of Truth Commission in South Africa and several other countries including Argentina, Rwanda and Yugoslavia.