‘Commission Traveled Beyond Its Brief’; Direction to Register FIR Against Police Officials Stayed: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has stayed the directions issued by the Punjab State & Chandigarh (UT) Human Rights Commission after finding that the Commission exceeded its legal authority by ordering coercive action instead of issuing recommendations, as required under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. Court’s Initial Observation A Bench comprising Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry observed that the Human Rights Commission had “travelled…
