Chief Justice S. Muralidhar

The Orissa High Court has recently held that the ability to provide redress to victims of state and police excesses is what makes the role of the Odisha Human Rights Commission and other human rights bodies in general, significant.

The court underscored that Article 17 was written into the Indian Constitution with the hope that the practice of untouchability in general and manual scavenging, in particular, would not continue in a free and independent India.