The newly set up Haryana Human Rights Commission has been flooded with a variety of complaints including those against revenue authorities and others related to missing persons, pension issues of ex-employees and domestic violence.
Addressing a press conference here this evening, Justice (retd) Vijender Jain, chairperson of the Commission said since the rights body started functioning from January this year, it has received 483 complaints.
"Though the Commission was constituted in September last year, it started its functioning from a makeshift office in January. Out of the total complaints that we have received so far, 156 have been disposed," he said.
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the Commission's member Justice (retd) H S Bhalla were among those present.
Hooda later on inaugurated the Commission's new office building in Sector 33 here.
Justice Jain said though there were complaints against the police department, but they were getting complaints of a variety of nature including cases related to eviction of old parents from their homes by their children, casteism, matrimonial discords and others.
With Haryana infamous for its skewed sex ratio, Justice Jain said priority the Commission will be to create awareness among the public about the social ill.
He informed that in many European nations, when the foetus is three-month old, it becomes the property of the state and its parents can't unilaterally decide its fate.
