National Human Right Commission 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 16 Annual Report - 2015-2016

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