http://www.indlawnews.com/F5C59F357972045AACE3F8C198D2B15D Haryana Has No Intention To Form Human Rights Commission
January 18, 2006
The Haryana government today informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that it had no intention to constitute a State Human Rights Commission, while the court has fixed April 5, 2006 as the date fo the final arguments on the issue.
A communication to this effect from the state government was handed over to division bench of the Chief Justice D K Jain and Justice Surya Kant during the resumed hearing on the PILs preferred on the subject by the Peoples Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), a Rohtak-based social activist Naresh Kadian and a few others.
While declining to set up a state HR commission as sought by the petitioners, the Haryana government has maintained that a mechanism was in place to deal with the complaints of violations of human rights, if any and as such, it did not feel the necessity to establish a separate authority to entertain and deal with such complaints.
Earlier, during the previous hearing, the court had been informed that the matter was under the consideration of the state government.
In view of the change in the government in the wake of general elections in February last year, the state counsel wanted time to know about the thinking of the leadership, which has now been oncretised into a categorical no to a human rightscommission in Haryana.
However, the bench fixed April for the final arguments on the petitions.
(UNI)