In a statement, NHRC said it has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that several people lost their lives after “consuming spurious liquor” in Kallakurichi.

A training academy should also be set up for them with a research and analysis wing.

Sarwanand Koul Premi, a poet and freedom fighter belonging to the Kashmiri Pandit community, and younger brother were brutally murdered by militants in 1990, according to the case proceedings uploaded on the website of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

The complainant, the wife of the journalist, has also alleged that "she has no access to him and is concerned about his well-being.

Reportedly, the students complained of getting the smell of kerosene oil from the meal. They also complained of stomach aches and vomiting after which they were taken to the hospitals, the statement said.