| SC asks NHRC to file report on Salwa Judum |
| BS Reporter / New Delhi April 15, 2008 |
| Supreme Court today directed National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to appoint a committee to investigate the human rights violations of Salwa Judum activisits in Chattisgarh and file its report within eight weeks. A public interest petition (PIL) moved by Delhi academicians had alleged killings and torture of innocent people by Salwa Judum activists armed by the state government and police to deal with Naxalism. The state government called it a "people |
