Question
Write a note on 'National Human Right's Commission'.
Solution
The National Human Right's Commission (NHRC) is composed of a former chief justice of Supreme Court of India, a former judge of Supreme Court, a former chief justice of a High Court and two other members who have knowledge and practical experience in the matters relating to human rights. The commission's functions are to receive complaints of custodial deaths, custodial rape, disappearance, police excesses, failure in taking action, indignity to women etc. Its most significant intervention has been in the case of disappeared youth in Punjab and investigation and trial of Gujarat riot cases.The commission does not have the power of prosecution. It can merely make re-commendations to the government or to the courts to initiate proceedings based on the inquiry that it conducts.
