CIVIL LIBERTIES case. The Commission therefore urges the State Government to react with greater promptness and sensitivity to the concerns and grievances of members of the Kashmiri Pandit community, to re-activate the Committee that has been constituted and to ensure that it functions with regularity and a sense of purposa^^^>^ 4,21 As regards the North-Eastern States, the Commission received a total of 384 complaints from there during the year 2001-2002, ofwhich more than 60 per cent were from Assam. Of the total number of complaints, 24 related to the conduct of the police and 41 to the conduct of the armed forces. In each case, the Commission instituted immediate action, calling for reports and recommending action as appropriate. TWo particularly important cases deserve mention in this section of the report. The first, to which reference has also been made earlier in this report, related to the complaint brought by Smt. Mina Khatoon alleging the 'disappearance' of her husband, Mohammed Tayab Ali, who was last seen in the custody of the armed forces. The Commission elaborated its views on Section 19 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 when dealing with this 4.23 The second case related to a matter that was referred to this Commission by the Manipur State Human Rights Commission. The latter had, originally, taken suo motu cognisance of a press report alleging that five persons had been killed and three others injured as a result of indiscriminate firing by security forces in Churachandpur, as a retaliatory action tmdertaken by them in the aftermath of an attack on a colleague by underground elements. However, as the matter related to the conduct of personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the State Human Rights Commission consideredit appropriate to refer the case to the National Hiunan Rights Commission, which had jurisdiction in such matters. Upon taking cognisance of this case, this Commission called for and received a report frorn the Ministry of Home Affairs, which it considered with care. In a Proceeding of 28 September 2001, the Commission, going on the basis of an on-the-spot study made by the Maniptu:Human Rights Commission prior to the referral of the case to the National Human Rights Commission, decided that this was an appropriate case in which to recommend the payment of Rs.2 lakhs as inunediate interim relief to the next-of-kin of each of four persons who had died, and Rs.25,000 to each of the four persons who were injured. ANNUAL REPORT 2001-2002 \ 31