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Human rights courts proposed in districts

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, APRIL 7. The Government today proposed to set up human rights courts in the districts. It has taken up the matter with the High Court of Karnataka.

The Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, H.K. Patil, said here that the Chief Justice, N.K. Sodhi, has been requested to accord permission to the proposal.

He told presspersons that Section 30 of the Human Rights Act provided for setting up of human rights courts in the districts. More than the number of human rights violation cases warranting setting up of special courts, their (courts) existence itself will create awareness about the rights among the people, he said.

To a question, he said family courts should be ideally housed in a building away from the civil and criminal courts.

This would help create a congenial atmosphere and enhance chances of reconciliation between estranged couples.

Teachers

Mr. Patil said the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal (KAT) had ordered appointment of 137 assistant primary school teachers on the basis of rural weightage, and the Government will issue the necessary orders. These candidates had approached the Supreme Court in two batches (109 and 28) complaining that posting orders had not been issued to them.

But the Minister said that it could not be construed as relief to all rural weightage candidates and it applied to only those in Haveri, Dharwad, Gadag and Bangalore Rural districts who had approached the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Government to issue posting orders which were withheld after the court had stayed the absorption rule.

The Government has set up a one-man committee to study repealing of over 500 enactments that have become redundant for various reasons.

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