While routinely going through its newsletters in 2012, India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) discovered that Assam had not reported over 60 killings to the Commission over a ten-month odd period. According to NHRC rules, every death in police action must be reported to it within 48 hours. In 2011-12, the NHRC opened 79 fresh cases on encounter deaths in Assam; 65 of these were opened on intimation from the state police and the rest on complaints from NGOs and others. In the same year, the United Nations observed that ‘a credible commission of inquiry into extra-judicial executions in India, or at least in the areas most affected by extra-judicial executions, should be appointed by the [Indian] government’. - www.openthemagazine.com