Society has to fight unseen human rights violations like untouchability and assist law enforcers and government agencies in combating such invisible violations, Commissioner of Police Shailesh Kumar Yadav said on Friday.
He was speaking at a human rights sensitisation programme organised by department of social work of Bishop Heber College and Young Men’s Christian Association here.
Police can combat rights violations which were visible and committed by criminals. Law enforcers initiate preventive action against such characters in order to ensure safety and rights of the people.
However, unseen violations such as two-tumbler system and untouchability that violates human rights pose a challenge to law enforcers.
Society could play a significant role here in fighting such invisible rights violations and extend support to government agencies in rooting out such violations by passing information and thereby ensuring the rights of affected persons, the Commissioner said.
Stating that human rights violations was a major issue in our country, Mr.Yadav said the rights violations committed in other countries were more serious than in ours.
Serious rights violations had been reported against women and depressed communities in modern India. Many social reformers had valiantly fought violations committed against women and were quite successful in that fight.
In the post-independence era, the Constitution had secured the rights of citizens.
A mosaic of reforms had been implemented and transparency was coming through technological intervention today.
The police were in the forefront of protecting rights of the people, Mr.Yadav said.
