A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 21 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted (West Zone) accused her of lying. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Zone) and the Deputy Commissioner ordered their subordinates to break Ms S. S. S.’s hands and legs. Male police officers placed their hands on Ms S. S. S.’s lower abdomen to check whether she was pregnant. They tied a rope around her abdomen and forcefully pulled on both ends of the rope. Thereafter they forced her into a prison van. Inside the van, policemen walked on her body and kicked her genitalia as well as her lower abdomen. After Ms S. S. S. fainted she was discarded on the street. Ms S. S. S. suffered severe injuries to her thighs, lower abdomen, back, waist, hip and other areas of her body. She also suffered two fractures, one in her right elbow and the other in the small finger on her right hand. Ms S. S. S.lodged a complaint against the alleged perpetrators at Mohammadpur Police Station but the police refused to record the case. On 14 March 2006, she filed a case (CR Case number 312/06) with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka against the Deputy Commissioners, the police constable, and a number of other police officers under the Penal Code. On March 19, Ms S. S. S. filed a second case (Number: 23/06) against the alleged perpetrators under sections 10/30 of the Women and Child Repression Prevention (Special Provision) (Amended) Act 2003. Neither case has led to a conviction of any of the alleged perpetrators. Over recent months, unknown perpetrators have on several occasions Government Response