References

 
List of Instructions/Guidelines Issued by the National Human Rights Commission from October 1993 to February 2004
 
[I-III] [IV-V] [VI-VII] [VIII-X] [XI-XIII]
 
Sr. No.
Subject
Date
     
I] On Custodial Deaths/Rapes
Reporting of Custodial Deaths/Rapes
 
1. Letter to all Chief Secretaries clarifying that not only deaths in police custody but also deaths in judicial custody be reported 14 December,1993
2. Letter to all Chief Secretaries on the reporting of custodial deaths/rapes within 24 hours 21 June, 1995
     
  Post-mortem Examinations in Cases of Deaths in Custody
 
3. Letter to Chief Minister of States on the video dilming of post-mortem examinations in cases of custodial deaths 10 August, 1995
4. Letter to all Home Secretaries regarding the rivised instructions to be followed while sending post-mortem reports in cases of custodial deaths
3 January, 2001
5. Letter to Chief minister/Adminstrators of all States/Union Territors with a request to adopt the Model Autopsy Form and the additional procedure for inquest
27 March, 1997
6. Letter to Chief Ministers/Adminstrators of all States/Union Territories communicating the modified instruction regarding cideography of post mortem examinations in respect of deaths in jail 21 December, 2001
     
 
Sr. No.
Subject
Date
     
II] On Encounter Deaths
 
1. Letter to Chief Ministers/Adminstrators of all States/Union Terriories regarding the modified procedure to be followed in cases of deaths in police encounters

2 December, 2003
2. Letter to Chief Ministers of all States regarding the procedure to be followed in cases of deaths in police encounters 29 March, 1997
     
 
Sr. No.
Subject
Date
     
III] On Visits to Police Lock-ups & Guidelines onArrests and Polygraph Tests
Visit of NHRC's Officers to Police Lock-ups
 
1. Letter to Chief Secretaries o all States on arrests of farmers to recover arrears of land revenue

21 November, 2000

2. Letter to Chief Secretaries/Adminstrators of all States/Union Territories to adopt and translate NHRC guidelines on "arrests" and make them available to all police stations and police officers 22 November,1999
3. Letter to Chief Secretaries/Adminstrators of all Sates/Union Terrories on the visit of NHRC's Officers to police lockups 1 August,1997