Press Releases

S.No.	Title	Release Date	Action
1	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
2	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
3	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
4	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
5	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
6	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
7	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
8	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
9	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
10	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
11	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
12	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
13	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
14	NHRC, India hears online 86 cases of alleged bonded labour in Haryana brick kilns	10-Jul-2026	View
15	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
16	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
17	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
18	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
19	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
20	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
21	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
22	NHRC, India’s four- week in-person Summer Internship Programme concludes	25-Jun-2026	View
23	NHRC, India participates in the First Consultative Meeting of NHRIs, State Bodies and other organisations of SCO Member States responsible for the protection of human rights and freedoms held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan	23-Jun-2026	View
24	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of two women and several others falling sick after ammonia leak at a shrimp processing factory in the Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu	22-Jun-2026	View
25	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported illegal confinement of a minor boy as an adult inmate at Kasna jail in Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh for more than two months before being shifted to a juvenile home	19-Jun-2026	View
26	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of a girl after being attacked by stray dogs in the Rupnagar district, Punjab	15-Jun-2026	View
27	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported social ostracisation of a woman in the Sundargarh district of Odisha and alleged denial of villagers' support for her last rites	15-Jun-2026	View
28	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of eight workers and injuries to six others in a blast at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant of the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited in Andhra Pradesh	11-Jun-2026	View
29	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of four workers while cleaning a septic tank at a jewellery manufacturing unit in the Surat district, Gujarat	10-Jun-2026	View
30	NHRC, India organises an Open House Discussion on ‘Safeguarding human rights against digital arrest scams’ in hybrid mode	09-Jun-2026	View
31	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported death of three persons and injuries to two others after inhaling toxic fumes while manually cleaning a sewage line inside a factory in Ludhiana district, Punjab	05-Jun-2026	View
32	NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of the reported beating and parading of a girl on suspicion of theft in the Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh	05-Jun-2026	View
33	NHRC, India organised a meeting of Environment & Climate Core Group on ‘Heat Wave and its Mitigation in Urban Areas’	04-Jun-2026	View
34	NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported trafficking, selling and sexual assault of a tribal girl from Odisha in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh	03-Jun-2026	View
35	NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of 53 maternal deaths within a year due to lack of facilities in the Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh	02-Jun-2026	View
36	NHRC, India’s 4-week in-person Summer Internship Programme – 2026 for postgraduate-level students begins in New Delhi today	01-Jun-2026	View