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The Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission was[1] an autonomous state body with quasi-judicial powers tasked to investigate any violation of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir, India.[2] The body was constituted in January 1997[3] by the National Conference government[2] under the Protection of Human Rights Act.[4] The commission consists of a chairman and four other members.
Officially, cases from the Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission went to the National Human Rights Commission of India.[1]
With Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh officially transitioning into being Union territories from October 31, 2019, they now come under the purview of the National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi. That is what the Jammu and Kashmir High Court ruled in December 2020...