The NHRC team, which included D N Rath, Isham Singh and K P S Dhaka, met the villagers at the secretariat where they were briefed by a lawyer Rajat Kalson, representing the dalit families.
The NHRC officials later summoned representatives of those families and recorded the statements of six of them.
The dalit families have been squatting at the secretariat since May 21 after the upper caste villagers raised a wall near their houses.
