BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Human Rights Commission on Thursday asked the state government to take immediate remedial measures to prevent further occurrence of mango kernel deaths which took place in Kandhamal district recently. In response to a petition, the OHRC said steps should be taken by the government to free tribal people in Kandhamal and other areas from hunger so that …
A family in Odisha’s Khordha district which hatched an elaborate fake abduction drama of its own members to evade a fine imposed by a village committee has been ‘rescued’ by police, bringing an end to the four-year-old case. Subsequently, Parbati Behera lodged a written complaint at the Tangi police station alleging that her husband and son had been kidnapped and …
The Orissa High Court last week observed that the ability to provide redress to victims of state and police excesses is what makes the role of the OHRC, and other human rights bodies in general, significant.This assertion came from the bench of Chief Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar and Justice A. K. Mohapatra who upheld the order of the OHRC recommending …
On Monday, the Odisha Human Rights Commission, OHRC, directed the Board of Secondary Education, BSE, Odisha, to not conduct offline examinations for differently-abled students of Class 10. The interim order came after a petition by rights activist Manoj Jena against the BSE's decision to not declare the results of the High School Certificate examination of 139 differently-abled students of special …