National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations

The National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) is a common platform of various organisations and individuals committed to the cause of human rights in India.

The NCHRO, in association with Amnesty International India, convened a national seminar on fake ‘Encounter Killings’, on 26 June 2007, (U.N. Anti Torture Day) at Marathi Patrakar Sangh Hall, Mumbai. At the end of day-long deliberations, resolutions with 11-point demands were passed which are as follows:

NCHRO Resolution on UN Anti Torture Day (26 June 2007) Wednesday 27 June 2007, by NCHRO

The encounter killings are part of a deliberate and conscious state administrative practice for which the Indian government must bear the responsibility. The successive political groups in power sanctified this de facto policy of extrajudicial killings by members of the police forces, the armed forces and para-military security personnel in Jammu & Kashmir, Assam, Manipur and Tripura and by the State armed police in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat in the name of eliminating naxalites, terrorists or criminals.

The State has armed itself with draconian laws such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, and derivative state legislations which are irrational, unjust and against the principles of natural justice. These laws justify preventive detention and encourage to extract confessions by any method.

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