NHRC rejects BSF authority’s report, awards Rs 6.5 lakhs compensation to victims, 8 January 2010
In its latest order, the National Human Rights Commission rejected the findings of the General Security Force Court of the Border Security Force and ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs to pay compensation of Rs 6.5 lakhs to the next of kin of the deceased, Masud Rana Sarkar and Rs 50,000 each to those injured in the assault by the BSF personnel in South Dinajpur district in West Bengal on 5 March 2007. The NHRC's order was based on the findings of the Magisterial Inquiry.The NHRC had intervened based on the complaint of the Asian Centre for Human Rights... read more
Report
- Torture in India 2011: 14,231 custodial deaths from 2001 to 2010, 21 November 2011
- India Human Rights Report Quarterly (Issue3-4: January-June 2011)
- India Human Rights Report Quarterly (Issue-2: October-December 2010)
- India Human Rights Report Quarterly (Issue-1: July-September 2010)
- Torture in India 2010, January 2010
- ACHR's Actions Against Torture and other forms of Human Rights Violations in India, June 2009
- India Human Rights Report 2009, May 2009
- India Human Rights Report 2008, December 2008
- India Human Rights Report 2007, May 2007
- India Human Rights Report 2006, January 2007
- Naxal Conflict in 2006, 10 January 2007
- India Human Rights Reports 2005, September 2005
ACHR Review
Press Releases
- ACHR condemns attack on the Gyaneshwari Express by the Maoists, 28 May 2010
- Arrest of prominent human rights activist, Kirity Roy, condemned, 7 April 2010
- NHRC rejects BSF authority’s report, awards Rs 6.5 lakhs compensation to victims, 8 January 2010
- 749 killed in 2006 in the Maoists' conflict in India: Salwa Judum campaign prolongs the conflict, 10 January 2007
Campaigns
- 27/10/2003: Custodial death of Mr Deben Sardar
- 18/08/2003: Torture and custodial death of 55-year-old Farman Ali
- 17/06/2003: Harassment and unprovoked firing by the Special Services Bureau
- 27/03/2003: Torture of Mr Ajoy Das
- 26/03/2003: Torture and custodial death of Himangtosh Baraik
- 22/03/2003: Custodial death of undertrial Dipak Lama
- 20/03/2003: Torture of one Mr. Ratan Sil under