According to an official statement released here, notices have been issued to the Kanpur Rural District Magistrate and the Senior Superintendent of Police calling for reports within two weeks.
The notices were issued after the commission took suo motu cognisance of a media report that a panchayat had ordered around 150 girls of Tyonga village to stop going to schools and colleges to save themselves from harassment.
When the girls resisted and raised an alarm, the goons not only threatened them with dire consequences but also thrashed a victim's sibling. Although, the parents had allegedly informed the police about the harassment, but no action was taken.
The residents, thereafter, staged a protest in front of the local police station. The Commission has observed that the content of the report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the girl students.