Congress has approached the National Human Rights Commission to form special teams to help book those found guilty of fomenting communal tension and also urged it to take steps to check "hate material" on social media.
A meeting of the legal and human rights department of the All Indian Congress Committee (AICC) said that such teams should visit states where communal violence has taken place to thoroughly investigate the cases even as it alleged that forces seeking to spark incidents of this sort "do get some support from the persons in power".
In a resolution, it said it also wants NHRC to set up high -level independent teams to check the circulation of "hate material" on social media and take legal action against anybody found involved in the posting of such material.
"We cannot shut our eyes to the unprecedented rise in the incidents of communal violence in different parts of the country, which is a matter of grave concern," the party said.
KC Mittal, secretary of Congress's legal and human rights department, charged in the letter that, "such forces do get some support from the persons in power, which boosts their morale and encourage them to indulge in such pattern as if there is no law.
