Goa, Jan. 13 -- The Goa State Hu-man Rights Commission (GHRC) on Monday set aside an eviction notice is-sued by the Socorro Village Panchayat to the family of a man accused of sexually assaulting a six-year-old child, holding that the no-tice was 'bad in law' and violated basic principles of due process.

The two-member Com-mission comprising offi-ciating Chairperson Des-mond D'Costa and Member Pramod V Kamat, acting on a suo motu cognisance of a news report published in O Heraldo titled "Eviction

notice to accused's fam-ily raises human rights concerns." In its order dated De-cember 25, 2025, ruled that the eviction notice dated December 24, 2025 had no legal sanctity un-der the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, as it was issued with-out any lawfu...