Times of India: Bangalore: Saturday, December 09, 2017.
The Karnataka
State Human Rights Commission has remained headless (KSHRC) for over five
years, notwithstanding a high court order to appoint a chairperson and the
government promising to do so.
Humans rights
and RTI activists said they will stage a protest at the KSHRC office on
December 10 if the post remains vacant.
Plenty of
cases are pending with the commission and people hesitate to approach it
because it doesn't have a chairperson, activist T Narasimha Murthy said.
Justice S R
Naik, who was the last chairperson, retired on July 25, 2012.
In late 2013,
the high court heard a PIL on appointing a chairperson. Subsequently, then
chief justice D H Waghela directed the government to do the needful
immediately.
During a
Human Rights Day function on December 10, 2013, a group of activists staged a
protest against the post lying vacant for nearly 18 months. T B Jayachandra,
then law and parliamentary affairs minister, said a new chairperson would be
appointed on December 17. Nearly four years later, the post remains vacant.
An RTI reply
from the law and justice department Jon August 21, 2014, lists 17 retired
Supreme Court judges and 9 retired high court chief justices as eligible for
the KSHRC chairperson's post.
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