NHRC, India could also facilitate the complainants to lodge complaints online, on its website; hence complaints were also being lodged on the portal of the Commission through on-line mode. They could also lodge on-line complaints from the Common Services Centres at District Head Quarters. 3.21 A number of officials of the Commission also got infected with Corona Virus and two of its officials lost their lives. Many of them also lost their near and dear ones. But despite these adverse situations, the undaunted spirit of the officials of the Commission prevailed. During the year 2021-2022 (01.4.2021 to 31.03.2022), 1,11,082, cases were registered in the Commission on receipt of complaints, intimations, and suo motu cognizance of the press reports alleging human rights violation. These cases related to incidents of different nature, mainly relating to custodial deaths, deaths in encounter, police excesses, illegal arrests, false implication in criminal cases, negligence by public servants in the prevention of human rights violations, land grabbing, medical negligence, kidnapping and rapes of women and girls, bonded and child labour, non-payment of retirementbenefits, etc. There were also a number of complaints related to the crisis arising out of impacts of Corona pandemic. During the previous year (2020-2021), the Commission had registered 74,968 cases, which increased to 1,11,082 cases registered in the year under consideration. This increase may be attributed to the prevailing conditions, resulting in sufferings to a large number of people. Human rights violation cases 3.22 Out of these 1,11,082 cases registered by the Commission during 2020-2021(Annexure–1), 40,676 cases related to the State of U.P., 8,612 to the NCT of Delhi, 5,806 cases to Bihar and 5,774 cases to West Bengal and 5,513 cases to all over India or to more than one state. The state-wise breakup of the number of cases registered, in descending order of number of complaints is given in the chart below: ANNUAL REPORT 16 2021-22