BANGALORE : Noted human rights activist and advocate Dinesh Hegde Ulepady has said regretted the government’s failure to initiate any step toward the formation of special courts to hear human rights violation cases, though law clearly states in this regard.
Addressing presspersons at the Press Club here he said the absence of special courts have kept several cases of human rights violation pending settlement. With several such cases being reported, the aggrieved persons are in a helpless state, he added.
Though the government has appointed special public prosecutors to hear human rights violation cases and has also framed rules and regulations for investigation into such cases, it is an irony that it has not formed special courts which are to probe such cases.
Even when there is scope under law to declare the district courts as human rights courts and delegate to them the special powers to investigate such cases, the government has not done anything in this regard, he regretted.
Citing a personal experience, he said though he had wished to file a writ in the court and initiate investigation into a human rights violation case wherein the Uppinangady police had tortured his client, the absence of a special court has come as a hindrance, he pointed out.
He also wished that the State Human Rights Commission pressurized the government to form such courts in order to settle human rights violation cases at the earliest.
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