30 i CIVIL LIBERTIES departmental proceedings were also recommended in the light of the findings. The Commission had occasion to express its appreciation of the work done by the Mukeijee Commission of Inquiry and had asked to be informed of the measures taken in response to its findings. The Commission was subsequently informed that departmental action had been instituted against the erring police personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir police and that the Ministry of Home Affairs had been asked to take action, according to law, against the Central Reserve Police Force personnel implicated in the report submitted by the Committee to consider the recommendations made by the Commission of Inquiry. 4.19. In the course of the current year, the Commission also considered a complaint from Human Rights Watch concerning the brutal killing of innocent civilians by militants in various incidents in the Valley of Kashmir. The Commission sought and obtained reports in respect of these incidents from the State Government, which indicated that seven cases had been registered in various police stations in regard to the killings mentioned in the complaint. The Commission directed the State Government to take steps for the speedy investigation of these cases under the supervision of senior police officers, and to inform the Commission of the outcome of the investigations. The State Government was also asked as to whether compensation had been paid to the next-of-kin of the deceased and the nature of steps taken to rehabilitate the affected families. 4.20 The Commission continued to hold hearings in respect of the problems being faced by members of the Kashmiri Pandit community, of whom some 3,00,000 have had to leave the Valley since the insurgency began, together with over a 1,000 Muslim families and a number of Sikh families. In order to assist them in dealing with their problems, the Commission had encotnaged the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to constitute a Committee at the State-level to examine their difficulties expeditiously and to help resolve them. The Special Rapporteur of the Commission was requested to serve as a Member of that Committee. While the Committee was initially able to help, in some measure, in providing some assistance to the aggrieved, it has not functioned with the regularity expected of it. This has been a matter of concern and anxiety to the Commission as also to the Kashmiri Pandits who continue to face great difficulties and hardships. The Commission finds the present situation unacceptable and deeply fhistrating, not least since its Chairperson has personally had occasion to discuss these matters with the highest echelons of the State Government when he visited J^mu and Kashmir and was given the assurance that the problems facing the Kashmiri Pandits would receive priority attention. Regrettably, this has not been the NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION