The National Human Rights Commission has recommended to the Government that it should get examined the issue of reservation thoroughly. Reacting to the media reports that showed some of the students and doctors on hunger strike being removed for medical care during the agitation, the Commission said that the Government should ensure that fairness and justice is not denied to any section or class of the society. Describing the reservation issue as a complex one, the Commission felt that the Government should also ensure a balanced and orderly development of all sections and classes of society while implementing its policy.
While expressing concern over the deteriorating health of students and doctors who were on hunger strike in protest against the reservation, the Commission also expressed concern for the denial of health care facilities to the sick and ailing due to strike in Government hospitals. It appealed to the doctors to resume their work in the interest of ailing patients and asked those who were on hunger strike to call off their strike.
Earlier, the Commission called for factual reports from the Commissioners of Police, Delhi and Mumbai in respect of the unprovoked lathi charge on the students in the two places during the agitation. Taking note of newspaper reports and electronic media coverage about the alleged police action on medical and engineering students indulging in peaceful protests, the Commission said, the allegations of police action raise a serious issue of violation of human rights. The Commission also said that no civilized State can justify use of brutal force on peaceful demonstrators.