Law student moves court on setting up of Human Rights panel
BY HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, MARCH 6 A fourth year LLB student of V M Salgaocar College of Law
has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) expressing urgency of setting up
Human Rights Commission (HRC) in the State.
Charles de Souza in a letter addressed to the Bombay High Court at Goa
pointed out that provisions of the National Human Rights Act, 1993 are not
implemented in Goa even as cases of human rights violation have come to
fore.
Many States have already set up State Commissions in accordance with the
provisions of the law, he claimed.
But there is no active implementation of the Act in Goa. Notices have been
served on the petitioner and the State Government returnable on March 7.
http://www.oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=673&cid=26
VIVA GOA
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