RAS question
The Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission was established under which Act?
Correct answer: (B) Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
The Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission was established under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
Explanation
The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 is the enabling law for human rights commissions in India. Its stated purpose is to provide for the constitution of the National Human Rights Commission and State Human Rights Commissions for better protection of human rights. Section 21 specifically empowers a State Government to constitute a body named as that state's Human Rights Commission. Rajasthan's commission therefore flows from this statutory framework, not from a general criminal law, transparency law, or security law. The Act is the right answer because it creates both the national and state-level institutional machinery for human-rights protection.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) The Indian Penal Code, 1860 is a substantive criminal law; it does not create State Human Rights Commissions.
- (C) The Right to Information Act, 2005 concerns access to information and Information Commissions, not the establishment of human-rights bodies.
- (D) The National Security Act, 1980 deals with preventive detention and national-security powers, not the constitution of State Human Rights Commissions.
Concept
This tests the constitutional-governance topic of statutory commissions and their parent Acts. RAS repeatedly asks such bodies because Rajasthan polity questions often hinge on matching an institution with the law that creates it.