“Everyday human rights of lakh of people are violated. But only a couple of cases reach the court,” said State Human Rights Commission Chairman S R Nayak.

Addressing the gathering at a seminar on “Role of State Human Rights Commission in protecting the human rights” held at Deputy Commissioner’s Office on Sunday, Mr Nayak said that human rights violations keep happening in our surroundings blatantly and many opt to keep quite about it, either because they do not identify that their human rights are being violated or they do not have the capacity to raise their voice against it. To protect such rights, he said the Commission is formed.

In 1993, Protection of Human Rights Act came into force and during the same year the National Human Rights Commission was established. Though State Human Rights Commission came into existence in 2005, the Chairman was appointed only recently.

Mr Nayak specifically addressing the police said that very often the police behave in a unruly manner. “Even addressing a person in singular is violation of human dignity. Superiority complex that the power brings often creates problems. Police and all government officers need to realise a fact that citizens are our masters and we are their servants,” he added and said that often when the police are in trouble, they take resort to human rights. If at all they want their rights to be safeguarded, they should disperse their service with respecting others human rights too.

Citing an example of an instance in Gulbarga, he said that there is a rule that any accused when arrested must be produced to the court within 24 hours. Many a times police even fail to maintain this rule and indulge into violation.

District Sessions Court Judge, H M Bharatesh delivering the presidential address said that power swayed by power often indulge into trial even before the cases are heard in the court.

Reiterating what Mr Nayak said at a seminar in St Agnes College held in the morning earlier, H M Bharathesh said that the students of St Agnes College brought to the notice of Mr Nayak that the bus conductors often rebuke them if they produced bus pass. Mr Nayak promptly asked Deputy Commissioner to hold a meeting with the bus owners to solve the issue.

Mr Nayak had also suggested the students to revolt to such violations as suffering violations is equal to supporting violation.

Deputy Commissioner M Maheshwar Rao, Principal Civil Judge K L Shivalinge Gowda, Bar Association Vice-President P Ashok Ariga and others were present.