Annual Report 1999-2000 police on 27 December 1995 to please his opponents. The complainant was a social worker and was the Convenor of the Hindu Chema Samiti. The next day, the SHO handcuffed him and took him around the town in broad daylight. The complainant further alleged that though he had complained to the higher authorities, he did not get any justice. The incident had an adverse psychological effect on him, and he had reportedly been condemned by the intelligentsia of the town. In response to the Commission's notice, the SSP, Lucknow, submitted a report stating that the concerned SHO was found guilty of handcuffing the complainant, who was a man of stams and a social worker. An order was issued to punish that official under the relevant rules. Upon considering the report, the Commission took the view that the liberty and dignity of the complainant had been tarnished by the barbaric and disdainful acts of the concerned police official, who had misused his position and power. It also noted that the atrocities perpetrated on the complaint had affected his psychological balance. Having regard to the loss of dignity of the complainant in the eyes of the society when he had been handcuffed and taken round the city, and having regard to the loss of his liberty, the Commission directed the Government of UP to pay a sum of Rs. 2 lakhs as immediate interim compensation to the complainant within three weeks, and observed that the state was at liberty to recover the whole or part of it from the concerned official. Illegal detention/abduction of Rama Rao by the Andhra police (Case No. 5828/95-96/NHRC) ,^Smt T. Nagarathnam filed a complaint with the Commission alleging that the police had abducted her husband T. Rama Rao from his house on the night of 12/13 November 1995, and that his whereabouts were not known. The Commission immediately called for a report from the State police. However, the report received was not found to be satisfactory, and the Commission therefore, directed its own investigation team to look into the matter and submit a report. Upon investigation, the NHRC team, found that Shri Rama Rao was picked up in the presence of his wife on the night of 12/13 November due to his suspected involvement in an attempt to murder one Tejeshwar Rao, a local CPI leader, on 4 October 1995. He was initially taken to the town police station Srikakulam, fixjm where he was moved to Luvaru police station and was tortured to extract a confession. However, when nothing could be established against him, he was produced before an Executive Magistrate on 14 November 1995, and released after he executed a personal bond of Rs. 5,000/-. Due to the torture that he had undergone, Rama Rao's first desire was to be free and he did not, therefore, lodge any complaint immediately. However, on 13 November, the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC) had submitted a memorandum to the Commission alleging that Rama Rao had been abducted and that his rights had been 114