NHRC to camp in UP

The National Human Rights Commission is planning to visit the worst-affected state to speed up disposal of pending cases of human rights abuse and take justice to the doorstep of victims.

Uttar Pradesh, with its reputation of being the worst offender of human rights, would receive the commission members at its state capital in Lucknow on January 18 for the same purpose. Justice Shivraj V Patil, who is the acting chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, informed that panel members would camp there for three days.

It has already sent a list of around 1,000 cases, which it intends to look at, to the UP Human Rights Commission.

Patil said the panel members would try to dispose of at least 200 cases in these three days. The state commission has been asked to do the spadework and keep officials ready with responses of queries from the national commission. Sources state that this pro-active move by the NHRC is to effectively counter red-tapism among bureaucrats who delay communication and eventual disposal of cases.