National Human Right Commission the Camp Sitting of the Commission held for the Southern States. There, the Commission heard Shri Henri Tiphagne of People’s Watch; Shri Chilka Chandra Shekar, Advocate and representatives of PUCL, Telangana; Human Rights Forum, Hyderabad; and Social Initiative for Legal Remedies, Secunderabad. Shri Lingaraju Panigrahi, Special Chief Secretary and Shri Vinay Ranjan, ADGP (Legal) also appeared before the Commission on behalf of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Quoting the order passed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court on 13 April 2015 in PIL No. 91 of 2015, they expressed inability to share any Chapter - 4 4.74 The case was then taken up at Hyderabad on 23 April 2015 during information with the Commission. The Commission pointed out to them that the High Court had restrained the State Government only from divulging the result of investigation and not the information like post mortem report of all deceased persons, the medico-legal reports of the injured STF personnel, details of weapons used by STF on the deceased persons, the police register, log book, G.D. entries, details of mobile phones, etc. The Commission categorically told the officers of the State Government that the High Court would not do anything to prevent a statutory institution like NHRC from discharging its statutory functions or from exercising its statutory powers conferred by the PHR Act 1993. The officers of the State Government were asked to interpret the order of the High Court in a proper and reasonable manner. The purpose of the order was to ensure a fair and independent investigation so as to instill faith in the minds of the people and that the order could never have been intended to obstruct an enquiry by NHRC. When the officers of the State Government were made to understand the order of the High Court in proper perspective, Shri Vinay Ranjan, ADGP (Legal) submitted that the directions given by the Commission on 13 April 2015 shall be complied with. 4.75 During the Camp Sitting on 23 April 2015, Shri Lingaraju Panigrahi, Shri Vinay Ranjan and Shri M. Naga Raju were also informed that a team would be visiting the place of occurrence for an on the spot enquiry and the Annual Report - 2015-2016 65