Allahabad, April 29 --  In an unusual development, two judges of an Allahabad High Court division bench passed separate interim orders after disagreeing sharply with each other over observations concerning the functioning of human rights commissions in the country.

The bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Vivek Saran was hearing a petition filed by the Teachers Association Madaris Arabia against certain orders passed by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in relation to the functioning of madrasas.

Justice Sreedharan, while questioning the NHRC's jurisdiction to direct a probe into madrasas, went further and made pointed observations about a pattern of selective engagement by human rights commissions across the coun...