NEW DELHI: Talking about the rights of police personnel and security forces who are often accused of conducting fake encounters, retired IPS officer Prakash Singh said on Monday that “there is no political consensus in India on fighting terrorism which has adversely affected country’s capability to combat terrorism."Speaking at the silver jubilee lecture of National Human Rights Commission, Singh, who was the chief of Uttar Pradesh and Border Security Force (BSF), asserted that 356 army officers approaching the Supreme Court over probe in 2016 Manipur encounters should be taken seriously and “larger question of human rights in insurgency situations must be debated and discussed." The petitions against security forces over encounters and they work in the line of duty demoralizes the forces, he added.“Policemen are always blamed for violating the human rights. But we don’t see their sacrifices and for whom they are fighting the terrorism. We need to have a situation where security forces don’t feel hamstrung in tackling terrorism,” Singh said.“We need to strike a balance between the security concerns and the human rights considerations. It would be a sad day if we win the battle of human rights, but we lose the battle of integrity and unity of the country,” he added.Quoting former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao, Prakash Singh said, “The then PM had said that in this country, only terrorists have human rights, not the police."Speaking the event, Noble laurate Kailash Satyarthi said, “when the space for inconvenient truths and dissenting voices is sinking, the country needs by print and independent institutions like NHRC, India and state human rights commissions.”"..human rights are not just limited to enforcement of certain laws. We must create a culture of human rights to live with human values which begin by respecting and tolerating each other and respecting the plurality in our country. This is a responsibility cast upon all individuals and not just the governments, judiciary and statutory bodies like NHRC alone," Satyarthi added.Dr Ajay Mathur, director general of TERI said that there is an immediate need to develop consensus on a corpus of knowledge that would be agreed to as actions which result in the lack of a clean environment hampering human rights.He urged the NHRC, India to initiate a dialogue on the issue of right to clean environment as human rights to help build a common understanding on the right to clean environment as human rights as well as the limits of these rights.