NHRC can investigate any complaints related to human rights violations in India either suo-moto or after receiving a petition. In the latest period, the major types of complaints have been:
- In respect of police administration
- Failure in taking action
- Unlawful detention
- False implication
- Custodial violence
- Illegal arrest
- Other police excesses
- Custodial deaths
- Encounter deaths
- Harassment of prisoners; jail conditions
- Atrocities on SCs and STs
- Bonded labour, child labour
- Child marriage
- Communal violence
- Dowry death or its attempt; dowry demand
- Abduction, rape and murder
- Sexual harassment and indignity to women, exploitation of women
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