Annual Report 2009-2010 4.54 Taking note of all the circumstances related to the case, the Commission on 5 October 2009 recommended to the Government of Andhra Pradesh to pay a sum of Rs. 1,00,000/- as monetary relief to the next of kin of the deceased Kandula Tirupathi. 4.55 The compliance report relating to the case is awaited by the Commission. b) Illegal Detention and Torture 9. Torture of Geeta Devi by Police Officials in her House (Case No.1522/34/2005-2006) 4.56 The Commission received a complaint dated 10 March 2006 from one S.R. Nag, General Secretary, People’s Union for Civil Liberties alleging that one Geeta Devi was beaten in front of her husband by the police officials. When she protested, an FIR was lodged against her father, Umesh Prasad, by a Tempo Driver. It was also alleged that the local administration were trying to shield the police officials. 4.57 In response to a notice issued by the Commission, the Senior Superintendent of Police, East Singhbum District, Jharkhand vide his le�er dated 1 June 2007 reported that a SubInspector along with his team had gone to the house of Umesh Prasad with regard to FIR No.13/06 u/s 387/379/427 IPC to arrest him when Geeta Devi started protesting and even hit the police officials with a footwear. Geeta Devi in her statement during the course of investigation stated that the police had come without any women staff member in the absence of any male family member in the house. She further confessed that she was beaten-up by the police. The Superintendent of Police also reported that Sub-Inspector Satish Kumar Sinha had been issued an advisory warning and adverse recommendations had been made in his Annual Confidential Report. Further, he had been told to take women staff along with him during such actions to avoid incidents of this kind in future. 4.58 The Commission considered the report and stated that since ill-treatment meted out to Geeta Devi by policemen was not denied and adverse recommendations had been made against the Sub-Inspector, the present case clearly ‘is a case of violation of human rights’ and directed to issue a show-cause notice u/s 18 of the PHRA as to why monetary relief should not be recommended to the victim. The Government of Jharkhand did not respond to the showcause notice issued by the Commission. 4.59 The Commission in its proceedings dated 17 November 2008 opined that since no reply had come from the Government of Jharkhand, it may be presumed that the State has no defence to offer. The Commission thus directed that an amount of Rs.10,000/- be paid by the State Government to the victim Geeta Devi. 4.60 In conformity with the directions given by the Commission, the payment of proof made to victim Geeta Devi has been received from the State Government and the case closed. 10. Death of a Pregnant Woman due to Torture Inflicted by Constables of Government Railway Police (Case No.10789/24/46/09-10) 4.61 The Commission took suo motu cognizance of a newspaper report published in the “Times of India” on 20 June 2009 wherein it was reported that one pregnant woman was pushed from NHRC 25