Why NHRC’s failure to ensure human rights not illegal: HC
The High Court on Wednesday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why the failure of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to provide appropriate remedy for incidents of human rights violations should not be declared illegal.
Following a writ petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer Abdul Halim, the HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil asked seven people, including the home secretary, to respond to the rule within four weeks, reports UNB.
The court also directed the home secretary to submit a report within 30 days explaining who no action was taken about the torture of domestic help Khadija on December 9, 2013.
Halim said Children Charity Foundation sent a letter to the NHRC to take necessary legal steps against the torture on Khadija.
During investigation, the NHRC found that the domestic help was tortured after being confined to her employer's house and she was made to starve. However, police hid all the information and did not record any case in this regard.
Later in 2014, the National Human Rights Commission sent a letter to the Home Secretary to take action in this regard after investigating the allegation brought against police.
Although it wrote 18 times till 2018, no action was taken till the date, Halim said, adding that although the NHRC can identify the cases of human rights violations, it cannot provide any remedy to this end.
