Section 2(1) (d) of the Protection Of Human Rights Act defines
Human Rights as the rights relating to life, liberty, equality and dignity of the individual guaranteed by the Constitution or embodied in the International Covenants and enforceable by courts in India. Indeed in India constitutional and judicial importance attached to the human rights.
National Human Rights Commission (the NHRC)
The National Human Rights Commission or NHRC is autonomous body /statutory body established under the ‘Protection of Human Rights Act 1993.’(amended in 2006.) The Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 also allow state governments to establish the State Human Rights Commission.
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