NHRC sounded

IMPHAL, Nov 22 :  The lone member of the Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has written to National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to depute a team  of the Commission to Manipur to protect human rights of the people.
In a letter addressed to the the acting chairperson of NHRC Vijaya Bharathi Sayani, Kangjam Khagen-dra, the lone member of MHRC, said that the State Commission cannot take up both new  and pending cases due to the vacancy in the office of the Chairperson (of MHRC) after the term of the former Chairperson UB Saha ended on August 24, 2024.
He also said that there has been no justice in Manipur for large scale violations amounting to grave crimes both under National and international human rights laws ever since the ongoing violence broke out on May 3, 2023. He further said that MHRC has registered as many as 71 cases relating to communal violence and disposed of 64 cases including cases which were transferred by NHRC. Continuing that even elected representatives and so called civil society organisations/leaders have openly justified the series of killings taking place in Manipur, Khagendra added that the inability of MHRC to register cases under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 may amount to denial of justice.