{"id":15,"date":"2005-02-22T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T01:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/02\/22\/nhrc-requests-more-powers\/"},"modified":"2005-02-22T21:25:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T01:25:53","slug":"nhrc-requests-more-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/02\/22\/nhrc-requests-more-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRC requests more powers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In its 2002-2003 annual report to Parliament, the National Human Rights Commission<\/A> (NHRC) has requested more powers, including authorization to investigate cases that arise more than a year after their occurrence, and “supervisory” powers over other commissions. <\/FONT><\/P>
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The NHRC said it should be authorised to take cognizance of cases that sometimes arise after one year of their occurence. Currently, there is a one-year expiry tag on cases before the commission.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P>
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The NHRC’s other major demand is equally interesting: it has sought ‘supervisory’ powers over a host of other commissions. This demand has been made at a time when the government is busy drafting a legislation to give Constitutional powers to the National Commission for Minorities while two other panels — that of STs and SCs — already enjoy such powers. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P>
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The NHRC is only a recommendatory body. Its annual reports have never been debated in Parliament.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Although the NHRC put this report before Parliament on the last day of the winter session, it became public only recently.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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