MSHRC, which is constituted to ensure the better protection of human rights in Maharashtra, plays an important role in addressing human rights violations and is crucial for our democracy and dispensation of justice. The functioning of MSHRC is even more essential in critical times like the pandemic as it is an important recourse to justice for ordinary people who have been suffering. With the courts working on low capacity and taking only urgent and Covid related matters in light of the second wave of the pandemic, the need for MSHRC to look into specific cases of human rights violations, is felt even more.
civil society organisations and activists demand that the Maharashtra Government immediately fill up the vacant positions in the MSHRC and ensure its smooth functioning