he National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has asked the Meghalaya government to stop child labour and conduct a survey to find the number of child labourers in the state. During a day long hearing camp in Shillong, the commission also asked the state government to take measures for schooling and rehabilitation of child labourers. The state authorities informed the NHRC that over two hundred child workers were identified in the Jaintia hills in the state. The NHRC has asked the authorities to give monetary compensation to the child labourers identified in the hills.

The Supreme Court today stayed the Karnataka High Court order, which had quashed the appointment of Shankar Bidari as Director General of state police. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and C K Prasad asked the state High Court to examine afresh the matter and dispose it of before May 31. 

The apex court while staying the High Court's March 30th order said that the latter had passed the order on assumptions without going into the findings of the Justice Sadashiva Commission and National Human Rights Commission, which, according to Bidari, had given him a clean chit in the case of alleged excesses and sexual abuse perpetrated by the Joint STF on tribal women.

The high court had earlier quashed Bidari's appointment saying that he was indicted by the commission as he was the deputy commandant at the time of the alleged excesses committed by the Joint STF of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu