
‘Every govt official should be human rights defender’
The Hindu
K. Baijunath, judicial member of the State Human Rights Commission, said here on Monday that the aim of all laws was to protect human rights and every government official should be a defener of human
K. Baijunath, judicial member of the State Human Rights Commission, said here on Monday that the aim of all laws was to protect human rights and every government official should be a defener of human rights.
He was speaking after inaugurating an awareness programme organised jointly by the State Human Rights Commission and Kannur District Police for police officers at the City Police Hall here.
Complaints against police officers could end if they treated properly those who came before them with complaints.

“Judicial time is a valuable public resource. Every frivolous or misconceived invocation of constitutional jurisdiction results in diversion of time from genuinely deserving litigants,” said the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court while imposing a cost of ₹50,000 on a man from Theni district who filed a petition with an unusual prayer: permission to conduct daily protests till the ‘World War’ ends.












