doctor every forty eight hours of his detention in custody. The arrestee should be permitted to meet his lawyer during interrogation. The Supreme Court of India imparted a new dimension to the enforceability of these directions by attaching the sanction of commitment of contempt for breach or violation of these requirements. 3-37 In the same spirit, the Commission has been preparing a chart, which will be translated into all the regional languagss and be affixed on the walls of police stationsllock-ups, informing those who have been detained or arrested of their rights. 3.38 Struck by the unsatisfactory quality of many of the post-mortem reports that it received, and apprehensive that such repom may have been "doctored" under police or other extraneous pressure, the Chairperson of this Commission wrote to the Chief Ministers of Statas on 10 December 1995 recommending that all post-mortems in respect of deaths in police or jail custody be video-filmed and the cassettes sent to the Commission together-withthe written reports of the post-mortem examinations. The Commission is gratified that the Ministry of Home Affairs fully backed this recommendat;on of the Commission and followed it up with a letter to all State GovernmentsIUnion Territories on 29 October 1996. Positive reactions, accepting the Commission's recommendations, have now been received from twenty States. The Chairperson of the Commission has pursued this matter through letters to the Chief Ministers of those Stetes that still have this matter under consideration, urging their acceptance of the Commission's recommendation without further delay. The Chief Ministers to whom such letters have been sent include those of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. On 27 March 1997, the Chairperson also addressed a letter to all Chief Ministers pointing out the deficiencies in the autopsy forms at present being used. Together with his letter, the Chairperson transmitted to them a Model Autopsy Form, that had been devised by the Commission after discussions with concerned ofticers in the States and experts around the country. In elaborating the form, which is tailored to the special circumstances prevailing in our country, the Commission took fully into account the work of the United Nations on this subject. The Commission recommends that the Model Autopsy Form and the Additional Procedure for Inquests which it has transmitted to the States be put to early and positive use. 3.59