Nine months after he retired from SC, Justice Arun Mishra is NHRC chief https://indianexpress.com/article/india/justice-arun-mishra-nhrc-chairman-7340811/ In a note attached to the tweet, Kharge, who is part of the high-powered selection committee, said he had sought the appointment of a person belonging to Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe as chairperson or even as a member of NHRC in light of the “rise in cases of atrocities” against these communities. “Since the Committee did not accept any of my proposals, I express my disagreement with the recommendations made by the Committee, in regard to appointments to the posts of Chairperson and Members of NHRC,” Kharge wrote.
NHRC Appointments: Hindutva Deep State Expands Armoury by Ravi Nair June 5, 2021 https://www.theleaflet.in/nhrc-appointments-hindutva-deep-state-expands-armoury/ Evidently, the NHRC under the Modi-Shah dispensation will be the new sword arm of an unethical central government, ready to open a new front against Opposition state governments and attack sections of civil society that have not genuflected. The quislings will find themselves on core committees of NGOs and other foundations, run directly or indirectly by the security machinery
Will SCA Revisit NHRC Accreditation?
That the Indian NHRC was granted “A” status by the SCA in 2017 is a scandal. This was perturbing as the NHRC, for its November 2017 review, had done nothing credible to attest to improvements nor was there was any substantive compliance with the SCA recommendations of 2011 and 2016.
The new appointment will ensure the death of much-required reforms in the Indian NHRC as suggested by the Justice Ahmadi report and bury reforms in the more than 170 other national and state-level human rights institutions in India. All of them are opaque and toothless.