○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Complaints Before the Commission ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ A] Pendency Number and Nature 4.1 During the year under review, the Commission had a total number of 1,35,209 cases to consider which included cases brought forward from previous years as well as fresh institution during the current year. During the period from 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005, the Commission disposed of 85,661 cases (Annexure 2). The State-wise and Category-wise details of cases are shown in Annexures 3 (a) to (c). 4.2 At the end of the reporting period i.e. as on 31 March 2005, the total number of cases pending with the Commission was 49,548, which included 2,288 cases awaiting preliminary consideration and 47,260 cases in respect of which reports were either awaited from the authorities concerned or the reports had been received and were pending further consideration within the Commission itself (Annexure 4(a)). At the begining of the year i.e. 1 April 2004, 60,808 cases were pending before the Commission (Annexure 4 (b)) 4.3 The total number of cases registered in the Commission during 2004-2005 was 74,401, while the corresponding figure for the year 2003-2004 was 72,990. Of the cases that were registered during the year under review, 72,775 cases were complaints of alleged human rights violations besides 1500 cases related to intimations of custodial deaths, 4 cases of custodial rapes and 122 related to police encounters. In accordance with the guidelines issued by the Commission, every death in police and judicial custody is to be reported to the Commission for its National Human Rights Commission Annual Report - 2004-2005 AR-Chapter-1-19-10-6-06.p65 43 23 7/17/06, 6:29 PM