The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is holding its three-day camp at Manipur capital Imphal from Wednesday.
A delegation, headed by NHRC chairperson Justice KG Balakrishnan and other members of the Commission will be attending the camp, a statement issued by the NHRC said on Tuesday.
“On the opening day of the camp sitting, a team of the Commission will meet human rights activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on an indefinite fast since last 10 years demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers’ Act (AFSPA) while another team will visit Churachandpur hospital. A team of the Commission shall also visit loktak lake to assess the situation in the surrounding areas of the lake,” the statement said.
“On the second day of the sitting, the Commission has decided to take up 46 cases in Full Commission and Division Bench Sittings to be held at Hotel Classic, Imphal. Four cases shall be taken up by the Full Commission comprising the chairperson and members. Twenty-two cases of deaths in police actions shall be taken up by the Division Bench-I comprising Justice Cyriac Joseph and Justice SC Sinha. The Division Bench-II comprising Justice KG Balakrishnan and Justice Satyabrata Pal shall take up 20 cases of deaths in police actions,” the statement said.
“The Commission will hold a meeting with local NGOs on human rights issues at Hotel Classic on the concluding day-October 25,” it said adding that the Commission is also expected to meet the State Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, District Magistrates, Superintendent of Police and other senior civil, police and jail officers on the issues raised by the NGOs on various subjects including extra judicial killings, prison reforms, bonded labour and child labour, human rights education, pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, intimation about deaths in police and judicial custody within 24 hours of occurrence as per guidelines of the NHRC, non-registration of FIR by the police in time and etc.
The Commission has been organising the camp sittings in different parts of the country with the objective of disposing of pending cases concerning a particular State by considering the take of senior Government officers; sensitise them about the importance of human rights issues and compliance of NHRC recommendations by them, meet the local NGOs to get an insight of the problems being faced by the people.
In the past, the NHRC has held its camp sittings in the States of UP, Bihar, Bengaluru (for four southern States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu), Odisha, Gujarat, Assam, Meghalaya and Chhattisgarh.