Press Releases

S.No.	Title	Release Date	Action
1	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of three newborns and injuries to four others due to a fire incident at the Sick Newborn Care Unit of the District Women's Hospital at Amravati, Maharashtra	27-Aug-2026	View
2	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a woman raped during a diagnostic test at Civil Hospital of Panipat, Haryana	27-Aug-2026	View
3	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of reported burn injuries to a woman after people allegedly poured boiling water on her, branding her a witch in Bhojpur village, Garhwa district, Jharkhand	27-Aug-2026	View
4	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported deaths of at least 9 people and 39 others in a critical condition after consuming spurious Indian-Made Foreign Liquor in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat	25-Aug-2026	View
5	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported physical assault on two men from Manipur in Munirka area of Delhi	19-Aug-2026	View
6	NHRC, India’s Online Short-Term Internship Programme for August 2026 concludes	14-Aug-2026	View
7	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of reported death of 19 CRPF personnel between January to May 2026, as per the official data compiled by CRPF	14-Aug-2026	View
8	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of one person and injuries to another after inhaling toxic gases while cleaning a manhole at a factory in Faridabad district, Haryana	14-Aug-2026	View
9	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported snake bite of six girls leading to three deaths in a hostel in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra	14-Aug-2026	View
10	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of a media report about school students risking their lives by hopping on check dam pillars to cross the Betwa River to reach school in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district	07-Aug-2026	View
11	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported beating of a Class 4 student, belonging to a Dalit community, by a teacher and being subjected to casteist slurs at a Government Primary School in Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh	06-Aug-2026	View
12	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a girl due to jaundice caused by consumption of contaminated drinking water in Shahzadpur, Ambala district, Haryana	06-Aug-2026	View
13	NHRC, India’s two-week Online Short -Term Internship Programme begins	03-Aug-2026	View
14	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of 5 persons due to malaria in a span of 13 days in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh	31-Jul-2026	View
15	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported torture and inhuman treatment to a 5-year-old boy by his teacher at a private school in Varanasi district, Uttar Pradesh	29-Jul-2026	View
16	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of four workers and severe injuries to two others in an explosion at a metal processing factory in Cachar district, Assam	29-Jul-2026	View
17	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of two persons after inhaling toxic gases inside a sewage treatment plant at a residential society in NOIDA, Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh	29-Jul-2026	View
18	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported sexual harassment of girl students by the Principal of a government school in Moga district, Punjab	24-Jul-2026	View
19	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported frisking, beating and forced removal of clothes of girl students by teachers after one of them lost Rs 1,000 at a government school in Sawai Madhopur district, Rajasthan	20-Jul-2026	View
20	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a worker and injuries to another after inhaling toxic gases while cleaning a sewage treatment plant tank in the Hisar district, Haryana	17-Jul-2026	View
21	NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a man after inhaling toxic gases in a sewer line during a cleaning operation carried out by the NOIDA Authority in the Gautam Budh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh	16-Jul-2026	View
22	NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported death of eight women and a minor in a week after undergoing surgery in the Gynaecology wards of the government hospitals in the Bhilwara and Banswara districts of Rajasthan	16-Jul-2026	View
23	NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported physical and sexual assault on two juveniles by fellow inmates at a Juvenile Home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh	16-Jul-2026	View
24	NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of the reported death of three children due to drowning in the ‘Ash Dyke Lagoon’ constructed by the NTPC in the Muzaffarpur district, Bihar	16-Jul-2026	View
25	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a worker and injuries to two others after inhaling toxic gases while cleaning a sewer chamber in the Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh	13-Jul-2026	View
26	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of three workers and injuries to several others in an explosion at a factory situated in the Urla industrial area of Raipur, Chhattisgarh	13-Jul-2026	View
27	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported snake bite to four students at a residential school hostel resulting in the death of one girl student in the Lohardaga district, Jharkhand	13-Jul-2026	View
28	NHRC, India hears online 86 cases of alleged bonded labour in Haryana brick kilns	10-Jul-2026	View
29	Curtain raiser: NHRC, India to hear online 86 cases of alleged bonded labour in Haryana brick kilns on 9th July 2026	07-Jul-2026	View
30	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a newborn due to failure to receive ventilator support for 24 hours despite being taken to three hospitals of Hisar and Rohtak districts in Haryana	06-Jul-2026	View
31	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of 7 migrant labourers and injuries to 5 others when a massive granite rock fell on them at a quarry in Bengaluru, Karnataka	06-Jul-2026	View
32	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported loss of a toddler's eyesight due to medical negligence in Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh	03-Jul-2026	View
33	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported incidents of toddlers being treated inhumanly by the nannies at a creche in an IT company in Bengaluru, Karnataka	03-Jul-2026	View
34	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reports about 12 bonded labourers being assaulted in captivity and forced to work till midnight without sufficient food and wages for nearly one and a half years at a factory in the Muzaffarnagar district, Utta	02-Jul-2026	View
35	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of at least five labourers and injuries to twenty others in an under-construction building collapse in Kolkata, West Bengal	02-Jul-2026	View