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by the Commission, on receipt of compliance reports. The Commission, once
again, recommends to all those States and Union Territories, in particular the
Government of Uttar Pradesh, to take speedy action on cases pending with
them for compliance so that the monetary relief recommended in each case is
immediately given to the victim/next of their kin. As is evident from the given
Annexure, during 2015-2016, a total of 94 cases were found to be pending with
the Government of Uttar Pradesh, 19 with the Government of Odisha and 17 each
with the Governments of NCT of Delhi and Jharkhand for compliance in which
an amount of Rs. 1,31,45,000, 30,60,000, 22,30,000 and 60,30,000 respectively
was recommended by the Commission as monetary relief. Bihar (16/23,45,000),
Madhya Pradesh (14/2,27,000), Haryana (13/29,25,000), Chhattisgarh (12/
18,60,000), Rajasthan (12/14,45,000), Maharashtra (10/35,00,000), Manipur
(10/61,00,000), West Bengal (9/18,75,000) and Telangana (8/16,00,000)
Andhra Pradesh (7/8,30,000), Tamilnadu (6/9,25,000), Gujarat (5/11,25,000),
Punjab (5/7,25,000), Uttarakhand (5/4,35,000), Tripura (4/1,30,000), Assam
(3/4,50,000) Karnataka (3/2,50,000), Pondacherry (3/8,00,000), Himachal
Pradesh (2/2,00,000), Kerala (2/1,50,000), Arunachal Pradesh (1/1,00,000),
Jammu & Kashmir (1/5,00,000), Meghalya (1/5,00,000) were the other States
in descending order where the compliance is pending.
2.28 With regard to compliance reports relating to cases pertaining to
previous years, compliance was awaited in 138 (66+72) cases, for details see
Annexures - 6 & 7.
2.29 Annexure-6 gives details of cases pending compliance for the year
2014-2015 in respect of payment of monetary relief. As is apparent, the State
of Uttar Pradesh tops the list again as the Commission till date has not received
proof of payment in 24 cases, most of which relate to civil and political rights.
Other States, which had yet to forward their compliance reports in this respect
were – Bihar (6), Rajasthan (6), NCT of Delhi (5), Odisha (5), Kerala (3), West
Bengal (3), Chhattisgarh (2), Gujarat (2), Jharkhand (2), Madhya Pradesh (2),
Maharashtra (2), Andhra Pradesh (1), Assam (1), Tamil Nadu (1), Telangana
(1). All the cases pertaining to these States primarily relate to civil and political
rights except for a few that address concerns of sexual harassment of women
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