UP Govt fails to respond to NHRC notice on Nithari killings

New Delhi, Jan 15 (UNI) The Uttar Pradesh Government has failed to submit a factual report within two weeks to the National Rights Commission on Nithari serial killings.

The Commission in a notice on January 2 to the State Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police had sought a factual report on the abuse and murder of children and women in Nithari within two weeks.

''We are still awaiting the report... so far it has not been sent to the Commission,'' NHRC acting chairperson Justice Shivraj Patil said.

He said the Commission was ''very keen'' to proceed further on the case but ''could not as the report had not been submitted''.

The Commission is visiting Uttar Pradesh for three days from January 18 but it is not scheduled to visit Nithari.

''Till we don't get the report we cannot do anything,'' he pointed out.

Parents of several missing children have also approached the Commission appealing for its intervention.

NHRC had taken suo motu cognizance of media reports and directed that the clippings and recording of the reports be sent to the state Chief Secretary and DGP.

''If the contents of the reports are true, they reveal gross violation of human rights of the citizens and in particular the children because of certain acts of omissions on the part of public servants, who did not take timely action in the matter,'' it had said.

UNI