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Human Rights and Practice Presentation
Human Rights and Practice Presentation
PRESENTATION
FC LALRAMNUNZIRSANGZUALA
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ROLL NO 17
The National
z Human Rights Commission comprises of a Chairperson. The chairperson
should be a retired Chief Justice of India.
There should be four other members. These are :
* There should be one member who is, or has been, a judge of the Supreme Court.
* There should be one member who is, or has been the Chief justice of High Court.
* Two other members should be there who have the knowledge or practical experience
in matters related to human rights.
Even then the National Human Rights Commission has carved out a
niche for itself. Some of it notable moment include : (i) Waging fight in the Court
of law against Arunachal Pradesh government for its apathy toward Chakma
refugee, (ii) it suo moto cognizance in the case of Gujarat riots and filed a
special leave petition before the Supreme Court, (iii) taking up suo moto
cognizance of instances of the fake encounters,etc ….
REFERENCES :
1. Http://blog.ipleaders.in/NHRC/
2. Http://www.drishtiias.com/important/institutions...
3.
Http://gktoday.in/upsc-question/discuss-the-achieveme
nts-of-nhrc
4. Http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHRC-of-india