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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed its management to inform the steps it has taken to sensitize the judges of the Sessions Court, which is appointed to hear cases related to human rights abuse.
A judicial panel made up of acting Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Judge Arif Doctor has been hearing a political isolation law by lawyer Asim Saroud, who seeks to create functional courts to deal with human rights violations.
In December 2022, the Supreme Court noted that the Law and Judicial Department of the state government had filed an affidavit that Maharashtra, under the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993, had reached a decision in May 2001, which authorizes the court hearings. To take knowledge and conduct trials in human rights crimes.
Lawyer Rahul Nirlikar said the state government has already appointed more than one sitting judge in each district as an ad hoc court to deal with human rights cases and there are two such cases pending before such a court in the state.
Sarode said that only two pending cases were not enough and there should be an announcement that such courts have been labeled because people are not aware of this. He stressed that there are different regions where human rights are violated and that the courts refuse to consider such cases. The Supreme Court asked Sarod to refer to such cases in the next session
The panel was told that in 2022, there were only two cases filed and still pending before the appointed judges in Aurangabad and Sangli. The Supreme Court questioned whether the low number of cases was due to a lack of understanding of what fell under the category of a “human rights” case.
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