AGARTALA, Oct 27 (TIWN):The Left Front government in Tripura has constituted a Human Rights Commission in the state under the Chairmanship of retired Chief Justice of Andhra High Court, Kalyanjyothi Sengupta.Former law secretary Samiran Das and a retired officer of Indian Administrative Service R P Meena would be members of the Commission.The Commission would start functioning with effect from January 1st , 2016. He used to work as acting Chief Justice at Calcutta High Court.

The Left Front government in Tripura on  October 19 last.  decided to constitute the much expected state human rights commission to deal with issues of human rights and cases of their

 The Tripura Police Accountability Commission has been constituted under the Tripura Police Act, 2007, with the powers of a civil court to summon and enforce attendance of witnesses under the civil procedure code, 1908. The Supreme Court recently said it was the statutory duty of the state governments to set up human rights commissions.

A division bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice R. Banumathi in their judgment said it was a matter of regret that despite the National Human Rights Commission strongly and repeatedly recommending setting up of state commissions, they have not been set up.

The court directed the governments in Tripura, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Arunchal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland to set up these commissions. Various political parties in Tripura have been demanding a rights panel in the state.