Annual Report 2012-2013 CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS Preventing Custodial Violence 1 2.15 The NHRC received 1,557 intimations about deaths in judicial custody , 146 intimations regarding deaths in police custody and two intimations regarding deaths in para-military/defence forces custody during the period under review. It disposed off 1,170 cases of custodial deaths - comprising 1,057 cases of deaths in judicial custody, 110 cases of deaths in police custody and one case of death in the custody of para-military forces and one case of death in the custody of defence forces. These figures also include cases of previous years. See the Graph below. Inspection of Jails and Correctional Homes 2.16 Three Special Rapporteurs of the Commission visited Alipore Central Correctional Home in Kolkata (West Bengal); District Jails in Latehar & Garwa and Daltonganj Central Jail in Palamu (Jharkhand); District Jail in Dantewada & Raipur Central Jail (Chhattisgarh); Jagdalpur District Jail in Bastar (Chhattisgarh), Bhatinda Central Jail and Sangrur District Jail in Punjab; Central Prison, Juvenile Homes and Observation Home in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and Gaya Central Jail and District Jails in Jamui & Jehanabad (Bihar). The main objective of these visits was to inspect the functioning of these institutions and study the living conditions and other aspects of human rights situation of the inmates therein. 1 In the Annual Report, judicial custody means persons in jails as per the orders of the court. NHRC 7