Annual Report
2013-14
4.295 The matter was also taken up during the camp sitting of the Commission held
at Lucknow from 15 to 17 January 2014. During the discussion, the officials of the State
Government gave account of various relief and rehabilitation measures taken by them for
the victims of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli Districts of Uttar Pradesh
and the displaced persons staying in the relief camps. The Commission has called for a
comprehensive report from the State Government on the following:
(i)
(ii)
Number of relief camps still existing with number of inmates. Whether the
District Administration has been keeping track of affected persons who have
since left the camps and their present post riots.
Progress of criminal cases including those of rape and sexual offences. Status
of investigation, arrest, etc.
(iii) Compensation for deaths, injuries and sexual offences. Status of assessment of
damage to moveable and immovable properties and compensation, thereof.
(iv)
Payment of compensation to the affected persons including children who
died in the camps.
4.296 The matter is still under consideration of the Commission.
i)
32.
Naxalite Attack in Chhattisgarh
NHRC Condemned Naxalite Attack in Chhattisgarh on May 25, 2013
(Case No. 476/33/1/2013)
4.297 While condemning the naxalite attack in Chhattisgarh, the Commission issued the
following statement on 29 May 2012:
The National Human Rights Commission is appalled by the savage attack
in Chhattisgarh on the 25 May, in which so many persons were killed by
the Naxalites, some after being taken alive. The Commission condemns this
brutality and urges the Naxalites to abandon their violence, which has made
matters worse for the villagers whose cause they claim to espouse.
The Commission follows developments in Chhattisgarh closely. After its report
to the Supreme Court on Salwa Judum and the relief camps which house
villagers displaced by the ongoing violence, it’s Special Rapporteur and officers
of the Commission have made follow-up visits to the State. All members of the
Commission, led by the Chairman, went to Chhattisgarh in April, 2013 and
held a camp sitting in Raipur, where they heard representations from, among
others, villagers of the areas most severely affected by the violence. Two
Members, accompanied by officers of the Commission, travelled to Dantewada
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