IMPHAL, Feb 25: The Centre for Organisation Research and Education, CORE has expressed its deepest concern regarding the prolonged non-functioning of the Manipur Human Rights Commission.
A press statement of the centre has stated that MHRC, a statutory body for the protection and promotion of Human Rights in Manipur has not been functioning as the term of the commissioner’s members had expired on May 9, 2010 and further added that it is the mandate of section 21 of the Protection of Human Rights ACT, 1993, that the Manipur state government shall constitute the MHRC.
It has further added that the Gauhati High Court, Imphal Bench has directed the state government in an order dated October 19, 2011 that the MHRC should be functioning within the period of four months, which seem to have already passed.
Citing that 14 extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings have been reported and documented during 2012 already which exceeds the nine cases documented during the entire 2011, the centre has further urged the state government to expedite the functioning of the MHRC for the ends of justice and for the sake of the people of the state.