Why No 'Human Rights Court' Yet? SC Pulls Up States [Read Order]

ashok kini

14 Jan 2019 8:54 PM IST

“Except in few States, there is no compliance of these orders and Session Judges have not been designated as Judges of Human Rights Courts created by the Act.”

The Supreme Court has pulled up states for not setting up 'Human Rights Courts' yet. Section 30 of the Protection of Human rights Act, 1993 mandates the states for specifying for each district a Court of Session to be a Human Rights Court to try offences arising out of violation of human rights. Later, in D.K. Basu vs. State of West Bengal (2015), the Supreme Court had directed the...

Why No 'Human Rights Court' Yet? SC Pulls Up States [Read Order]

ashok kini

“Except in few States, there is no compliance of these orders and Session Judges have not been designated as Judges of Human Rights Courts created by the Act.”

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