The NHRC has asked the Centre, through the Union Home Ministry, to issue suitable guidelines.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday asked the Centre to issue guidelines and advisories to all the states and union territories to ensure that the implementation of coronavirus lockdown is done in a sensible manner respecting the rights, liberty and dignity of people.
"The NHRC has asked the Centre, through the Union Home Ministry, to issue suitable guidelines/advisory/Standard Operating Procedure to all the States and UTs emphasizing that while implementing Corona lockdown guidelines, the public servants, including police personnel, should behave in a sensible manner with the people, particularly belonging to vulnerable sections, respecting human rights relating to their life, liberty and dignity," an official statement from the commission said.
The development comes after a human rights activist alleged that in order to implement the lockdown guidelines effectively, the public servants, including the police personnel, across the country, sometimes under tremendous pressure, tend to deal with the people, especially the ill-informed poor labourers, in a very harsh manner undermining their rights.
The commission also said that it appreciates the government agencies that are working hard to keep the coronavirus situation under control. However, it also becomes important to highlight the issues raised by the complainant.
It is being alleged that the illiterate and the less informed, mainly the poor labourers and daily wage workers, etc. are facing extreme difficulties due to shortage of food and other necessities, the NHRC said. They can be asked to stay off the streets with some degree of compassion without being cruel and abusive using excessive force, it added.
Recently, the rights body took cognisance of a complaint regarding an alleged violation of human rights of the people suffering from mental illness during the lockdown.
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