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Most plaints relate to service matters: rights panel member

People-friendly: Karnataka State Human Rights Commission member B. Parthasarathy addressing officials at the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Hassan on Wednesday.

HASSAN: Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) member B. Parthasarathy said on Wednesday that the commission had started work in July 2007 and had so far received 2,000 complaints. Of this, more than 50 per cent pertained to issues concerning service, such as delayed promotions or delayed increments. The State Commission couldnot take cases that were already in court or with the National Human Rights Commission or any statutory body, he added.

Mr. Parthasarathy was addressing presspersons here. He is on a tour of the district to educate officials on the role and responsibilities of the KSHRC. On Tuesday, he visited Chikmagalur district. Mr. Parthasarathy said people could send their grievances to the commission either on a plain sheet of paper or on a postcard. “We will also take suo motu action based on newspaper and audio-visual media reports. The recent case wherein a police constable had allegedly raped a minor girl in Arsikere, the lynching of former Home Guard Shivananjaiah in a village in Chennaraypatna and the rape and murder of a woman in Belur taluk were all reported in the newspapers, he said and added that necessary action would be taken based on information received from the police. Mr. Parthasarathy said the State commission had taken up the investigation of the case in which a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus was set ablaze, killing two passengers, near Bangalore. In this case, the complaint stated that the police did not reach the spot in time. It had also taken up for investigation the case of suicide by two research students at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He said that recently the State commission chairman visited Karwar, where people complained that iron ore was being dumped on vacant land, which had affected standing crops. Another complaint had been received pertaining to drinking water being mixed with sewage. “We will investigate cases involving ragging of students,” he said. Deputy Commissioner Anjum Parvez and Superintendent of Police K.V. Sharatchandra were present.

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