A Division Bench of Justices K.K. Swaminathan issued the direction after expressing dissatisfaction over a report filed in the court on Monday without mentioning a time frame. Recording the submission that the Registrar General of the High Court had also suggested some names for the posts and about 31 individuals too had applied for the posts, the judges said that the members should be appointed to the commission at the earliest. The judges told a Special Government Pleader that the chairperson alone might not be able to handle the functions of the commission without the assistance of two members. The observations were made during the hearing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by advocate G. Thirumurugan of Ramanathapuram on the basis of a news report titled ‘Seven months on, SHRC still without members’ published in The Hindu on April 6.

Source: The Hindu August 07, 2017 19:18 UTC