The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the Union Home Secretary seeking a factual report on the news that security forces carried the bodies of dead Naxalites, including women, with their hands and feet tied to bamboo poles in West Bengal.
The Commission issued the notice after taking suo motu cognisance of the news and photographs that appeared in the media on June 18 wherein it was shown that the bodies were taken like animals after an anti-Naxal operation in West Midnapore district.
If the report was true then it raised a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victims, said the Commission ordering follow-up action.