NHRC, India iii. The Commission observed on 30/12/2020 that the State was vicariously liable for the acts of its employees/agents, and hence the Commission issued a Show Cause Notice to the concerned State, through its Chief Secretary as to why interim compensation of Rs. 2,00,000/- should not be paid to the victim. iv. The Commission on having been noted vide proceedings dated 11/03/2021 that no reply to Show Cause Notice was received by the State authorities and hence it was deemed that the State authority had nothing to summit in the matter and hence the Show Cause Notice was confirmed. v. Further, the Commission received a copy of a communication dated 22.11.2021 from SI, CID,Patna, Bihar, submitted that the informer gave the wrong information to the Police, which led to the wrongful arrest of the victim and requested the Commission to grant him an opportunity of being heard so as to enable him to submit presentation and stay on departmental order. vi. The Commission vide proceedings dated 27/12/2021 observed that the SI had accepted the fact that the victim was wrongly arrested on wrong information from the informer, but the Commission was not satisfied with the defence that the victim could not prove that he was wrongly arrested. vii. The Special Secretary, Home, Government of Bihar, vide communication dated 25.1.2022 submits the compliance report of payment alongwith proof of payment of Rs. 2,00,000/- to the victim. viii. In view of the above developments, the Commission closed the case on 09/03/2022. 10. Alleged illegal arrest and false implications of two persons for 18 days at PS Sadar Bazar, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh (CaseNo.4658/24/64/2018) i. The complaint was received in the Commission on 19/02/2018 from the complainant Smt. Veena Takkar, w/o Kewal Kishore, District Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The complaint pertainedtothe illegal arrest and detention of the complainant's sons in a false case by the Saharanpur police. ii. The Commission took cognizance ofthe matter on 28/02/2018 and a report was sought in the matter from the State authority. In response to the directions of the Commission, on telephonic conversation, SHO PS Charthawal, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh,told that FIR 532/2016 PS Sadr Bazar was registered, and final report was submitted in the Court due to lack of evidence. Later, the case was investigated by the Crime Branch. Sons of the complainant were arrested for 18 days,and an application was filed in the Court for conciliation of charge sheet and a FIRwas filed. Later on, investigation of the case was entrusted to Charthawal PS. During further investigation under section 173(8) of Cr.PC, it was found that there was no evidence. The accused persons were wrongly arrested. After investigation, the final report ANNUAL REPORT 61 2021-22