E/CN.4/1997/7 page 21 Honduras 85. On different dates the Special Rapporteur transmitted allegations concerning 12 cases involving minors. The Government replied to 10 of them. Hungary 86. The Special Rapporteur transmitted allegations concerning four individual cases, to which the Government provided replies. He also transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of four persons. India 87. By letter dated 16 September 1996 the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had continued to receive information indicating that the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir had tortured detainees systematically in order to coerce them to confess to militant activity, to reveal information about suspected militants, or to inflict punishment for suspected support or sympathy with militants. The use of torture was said to be facilitated by the practice of holding detainees in temporary detention centres without access to courts, relatives or medical care. The methods of torture reported include severe beatings, electric shocks, crushing the leg muscles with a wooden roller, burning with heated objects and rape. 88. The practice of incommunicado detention was said to facilitate torture. The security forces were reported rarely to produce detainees before a magistrate, despite their being required by law to do so within 24 hours of detention. It was reported that since 1990 over 15,000 habeas corpus petitions had been filed to reveal the whereabouts of detainees and the charges against them, but that in the vast majority of these cases the authorities had not responded to the petitions. It was further reported that on no occasion had information been made public regarding instances of action taken against security force personnel in Jammu and Kashmir for acts of torture. 89. The Special Rapporteur transmitted six individual cases and received replies to three of these cases. He also transmitted follow-up information on 19 previously transmitted cases. The Special Rapporteur sent 2 urgent appeals, 1 on behalf of 2 individuals and another on behalf of some 180 Bhutanese refugees staging a march through India. The Government replied to those appeals. The Government also replied to six cases transmitted in previous years. Observations 90. The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the responses of the Government and the efforts involved in collecting such information in a large federal State. Nevertheless, he continues to be concerned at the persistence of allegations of torture, followed often by death in custody, and to regret the reluctance of the Government to invite him to visit the country.