Press Releases

S.No.	Title	Release Date	Action
1	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported evacuation of over 2,600 people due to hazardous gas leakage at a chemical unit in Palghar district of Maharashtra	05-Mar-2026	View
2	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of two municipal sanitation workers in a sewer chamber in Indore, Madhya Pradesh	05-Mar-2026	View
3	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of 18 workers and severe burn injuries to 24 others in an explosion at an explosives manufacturing unit at Raulgaon in Katol taluka area in Nagpur, Maharashtra	05-Mar-2026	View
4	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a boy after falling into an uncovered drain in Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh	03-Mar-2026	View
5	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance over the botched cataract surgery resulting in removal of 9 patients' infected eye and vision loss of 9 others at a private hospital in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh	03-Mar-2026	View
6	NHRC, India, organises an Open House Discussion on “Measures to Curb Spurious Medicines in India”	26-Feb-2026	View
7	NHRC, India organises an Open House Discussion on ‘Rethinking Beggary: Bridging Gaps between Policy, Practice and Dignity’	25-Feb-2026	View
8	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported Indian workers held in captivity by their employer without salary and proper food in an area near Bangkok, Thailand for the last six months	23-Feb-2026	View
9	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported physical and sexual assault on a journalist covering students' protest in the North Campus of Delhi University	20-Feb-2026	View
10	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of two persons and injuries to four others in a blast at a chemical plant in Basaralu area of Mandya district, Karnataka	19-Feb-2026	View
11	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of misuse of its name and logo by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) registered under names deceptively similar to it	19-Feb-2026	View
12	NHRC, India’s Online Short Term Internship Programme for February 2026 concludes	17-Feb-2026	View
13	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported sexual assault and torture of 5 minors in captivity for 18 hours on suspicion of theft in DLF Phase 3 area of Gurugram in Haryana	11-Feb-2026	View
14	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of 18 workers after blast at an illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya	11-Feb-2026	View
15	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported Indian migrant workers stranded in Dubai	09-Feb-2026	View
16	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported Delhi Police data indicating 807 people missing in Delhi during the first two weeks of January 2026; Only 235 of them traced so far	09-Feb-2026	View
17	NHRC, India’s Online Short Term Internship Programme for February 2026 begins	03-Feb-2026	View
18	NHRC, India hosts 40 Sri Lankan senior civil services officers on their exposure visit to the Commission as part of NCGG capacity building initiative under ITEC programme of MEA	29-Jan-2026	View
19	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported protest by Kalbelia community demanding a designated place for burial of their kins in Barmer District Rajasthan	29-Jan-2026	View
20	NHRC, India's Core Group on Disabilities deliberates upon ‘Human rights violations emerging from re-verification and re-assessment of certificates of government employees with disabilities’	28-Jan-2026	View
21	NHRC, India holds a meeting of its Special Rapporteurs and Special Monitors	23-Jan-2026	View
22	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported abduction and rape of a 14-year-old girl in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh	15-Jan-2026	View
23	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance on the reported suffering of a boy under bonded labour for months after being separated from his father at Bahadurgarh Railway Station in Haryana	15-Jan-2026	View
24	NHRC, India’s four- week in- person Winter Internship Programme concludes	09-Jan-2026	View
25	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported significant surge in the patients of typhoid due to consumption of contaminated drinking water in Gandhinagar City of Gujarat	08-Jan-2026	View