2.19 The symbiosis between the Superior Courts and the Commission is reflected in the involvement of the Commission in some 20 cases before the courts. They range from matters of police reform and the payment of wages to prisoners, to the treatment of refugees, custodial death and torture, "disappaaranms"and killings in 'encounters" involving the police, and even the setting-up of a State-level Human Rights Commission, all of these issues being related to questions of good governance and reform in the deepest sense. While these 20 cases were summarized in the report of the Commission for 1997-98, for purposes of ease of reference and to make this report self-contained, they are listed below: Before the Supreme Court: Writ Petition fC) No.310196 on questions refating to Police Reforms : Writ Pefition {C)No. 42/97 concerning deaths by starvation in Orissa; Writ Petition (Crl) No. 13/98 concerning harassment of Chakma refugees in Arunachal Pradesh; Writ Petition No.335/99 concerning non-production of records by the Ministry of Home Affairs in Bijbehara Case. Before the High Courts : Habeas Corpus Petition No.32/96 concerning the alleged killing of Jalil Andrabi by the Security Forces, before the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir; Criminal Miscellaneous Application No.2558196 concerning the custodial death of A.B Mishra, a student of Banaras Hindu University, before the High Court of Allahabad; Writ Petition (Crl) No.651/92 concerning the disappearance of Harjit Singh, before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana; Writ Petition Nos. 6829 and 5945/97, concerning activities of the People's War Group in Andhra Pradesh, before the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. Writ Petition (Crl) No.I146i97,1064/97 and 1032/97 concerning 'encounter'deaths involving the Murnbai police, before the High Court of Bombay. Writ Petition (Crt) Miscellaneous No.12078198 concerning the harassment and torture of one Sheodan Singh before the Punjab and Haryana High Court.