Complaints before the Commission been filed in the court against the erring police personnel, the case may be entrusted to the State CID and a charge-sheet be filed thereafter against all the culprits in the appropriate court; and (d) disciplinary action may be initiated against the erring police personnel. The State Government has sent a compliance report with regard to the payment of compensation. Atrocities inflicted on a family in Maharashtra (Case No. 1361/94-95/NHRC) Shri A.R. Antulay, Member of Parliament (MP), filed a petition dated 12 September 1994, before the Commission, highlighting the case of the Haspatel family of village Whlwati, Shrivardhan Taluk, Raigadh District, Maharashtra, who were allegedly subjected to serious atrocities by the police during the communal riots that took place in Maharashtra in December 1992 and January 1993. The complainant stated that the act of the police against an innocent family had the distinct tinge of communal bias. On consideration of the matter, the Commission noted from the report of the State Government, that departmental action had been ordered against the police officials involved in the matter. The Commission accordingly recommended that, keeping in view the nature of findings in the departmental proceedings, appropriate prosecution should be launched in respect of all, or of such persons who were found responsible for the conduct which had been indicated in the Government order. The matter was again considered by the Commission on 17 January 2000. The Commission observed that fix)m the conclusions reached and the findings recorded by the State CID,- it was evident that Shri Iqbal Ismail Haspatel, his wife, three sons and a daughter-in-law, ie in all six members of that family, were not only humiliated and harassed, but also unlawfully tortured. Some of them were subjected to illegal arrest. All of these persons were subjected to several indignities wholly inconsistent with norms of decency. It was also noted that allegations had been made to the effect that valuable property estimated at Rs. 1.87 lakhs, owned by the victims of the incident, had also been taken away or destroyed by the police officials; this required further verification. The Commission directed the Government of Maharashtra to pay an amount of Rs. 5 lakhs as compensation by way of immediate interim relief to Shri Ismail and his family members. The Government of Maharashtra has complied with the Commission's recommendations on the payment of compensation of Rs. 5 lakhs to the victims. Death of workers in silicon factories of Madhya Pradesh (Case No. 7894/96-97/NHRC) A news item captioned TDeath in the Air' appeared in the Sunday Observer in September 1996. The Commission took suo motu cognizance of tlie news item and called for a report ftxDm the Government of Madhya Pradesh. The report indicated that there were 134 slate 137