- The government should repeal all provisions on impunities of law enforcement agencies and securities agencies for committing torture. - Take urgent steps to ensure access to detainees, especially during periods of custodial interrogation. Relatives, doctors and lawyers should have access to detainees without delay and regularly thereafter. - Witnesses including family members and human rights defenders should be protected against possible reprisal by the perpetrators of torture or other human rights violations. - Interrogation should take place only at official centres and any evidence obtained from a detainee in an unofficial place of detention and not confirmed by the detainee during interrogation at official locations should not be admitted as evidence in court against the detainee;32 - The detainee should have the right to have a lawyer present during any interrogation; - The police officer responsible for arbitrary arrest, detention, and torture should be accountable to the law for his/her criminal wrongdoing in ‘like manner’ as the citizen. 32 50 Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture, 2001, UN Doc.A/56/156, July 2001, para 39.