National Human Rights Commission to probe West Bengal violence after reports of genocidal political violence
NHRC took Suo Moto Cognizance and will be deploying an in-house Fact-Finding Team To Conduct Spot Enquiry after widespread violence in state.
The National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday ordered an in-house fact-finding team to investigate the alleged post-poll violence in West Bengal on Monday.
The NHRC said it has come across several media reports published in newspapers on Tuesday regarding the death of some people in the alleged post-poll violence in West Bengal on Monday.
“The political workers allegedly clashed with each other, party offices were torched down and some homes were ransacked and valuables also looted. District Administration and local law and order enforcement agencies appear not to have acted to stop such violation of human rights of the affected persons”
NHRC statement
The NHRC said it considered it a “fit case of alleged violation of Right to Life of the innocent citizens” and asked its DIG (Investigation) to set up a team of officers to conduct an on-the-spot probe. The team was asked to submit its report at the earliest, preferably within two weeks.
Apart from seeking an inquiry and investigation into the ‘instances of rampant violence, murders and rapes that have been carried out by workers of TMC across the State of West Bengal’, the Application also seeks directions to the State to ‘file a detailed status report qua the FIRs registered, arrests made and steps taken by it against the perpetrators of the crimes mentioned in the instant application’.