"The commission today issued the direction to the DIG and asked him to investigate into the causes of deaths of three persons and injury of two others," an OHRC official told PTI.
The OHRC gave this direction after admitting a petition from human rights activists and asked the DIG to submit a report to it within four weeks.
Three villagers including a ward member were killed and two minor boys injured after being allegedly caught in a cross-fire between security forces and Maoists in the Karlapat forest in Kalahandi district on Sunday evening.