Key Points
Today, the National Human Rights Commission is being called out for its silence over human rights violations in India, and is facing a credibility crisis nationally and internationally...
Over the years, the NHRC has devolved into a toothless tiger a term used in 2016 by its own chairperson at the time, former Chief Justice of India HL Dattu, as well as the Supreme Court in 2017..
The commission found the version of the Delhi police sufficient to rule out a fake encounter, it said.. Observers and experts like Henri Tiphagne, national secretary of the Human Rights Defenders AlertIndia, express concern over the politicisation of the commission and its proactive selectiveness in some states, while ignoring crisis situations in others...
Earlier this year, GANHRI, the largestglobalhuman rights network,expressed concerns in itsreportabout the commissions purported failure intaking sufficient action in protecting the rights of marginalised groups including religious minorities...
Noorani wrote anarticle titled A Policeman as Judge? against the appointment and Ravi Nair resignedfrom the NHRCs NGO core committee, a monitoring body and helps coordinate with NGOs in human rights violation cases...
