Tr. Hussain Ahamed v. the Registrar
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: Article 226 Constitution of India; Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus; Tamil Nadu State Human Rights Commission; SHRC Case No.14033/22/13/2021/HCP; order dated 20.02.2025; principles of natural justice; due process of law; finding of fact; no illegality or perversity; non-registration of offence despite complaint; remedy of approaching concerned Magistrate; petition dismissed; no order as to costs; Madras High Court; Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava; G. Arul Murugan, J.; Cuddalore; Kattumannarkoil police station. Useful for matters concerning judicial review of Human Rights Commission orders, perversity standard, and alternative remedies for non-registration of offences.
What did the court decide?
The order of the Human Rights Commission does not suffer from any illegality or perversity: on the petitioner's complaint the Commission obtained a report and, after examination of the materials on record, recorded a finding of fact which cannot be said to suffer from any perversity.