The 1996 Compensation Relating to Torture Act is not in line with the Convention’s requirements for effective remedies. relevant District Police Office and to ask that DPO to respond to the allegations, without actually visiting the detainees and interviewing them privately. Moreover, no police officer has been suspended pending the outcome of Human Rights Cell investigations. In the period from 1996 to 2007, Nepalese police has taken departmental action against 21 police personnel in 11 cases for alleged torture, out of which 6 cases led to prosecutions. Non-governmental sources: OHCHR has called upon the Government to suspend military personnel alleged to have been involved in conflict-related human rights violations, including torture, pending investigation. Instead, the Nepal Army has continued to promote or extend the terms of personnel against whom there are credible allegations. This includes personnel alleged to have been involved directly or by virtue of command responsibility in the violations documented in OHCHR’s public reports on disappearances, torture and ill-treatment at the Nepal Army’s Maharajgunj Barracks (report published in May 2006) and in Bardiya District (report published in December 2008). Non-governmental sources: Torture suspects are not prosecuted or punished. In a few cases, police have been suspended briefly pending an internal inquiry. Impunity for current and past crimes continues. Not a single member of the security forces or the CPN-M has been held criminally accountable or convicted for acts of torture, other illtreatment or other human rights abuses committed during the conflict. Instead, attempts to grant amnesties for severe human rights violations continue despite the Government’s plan to set up the TRC and the Disappearances Commission. In October 2008, the CPN-M-led Government recommended the withdrawal of 349 criminal cases (investigations, charges and convictions) of a so-called “political nature”. They included cases of gross human rights abuses (murder, attempted murder and rape), the majority from the conflict period. Most cases were against CPN-M A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 124 (j) Any public official indicted for abuse or torture, including prosecutors and judges implicated in colluding in torture or ignoring evidence, be immediately suspended from duty pending trial, and prosecuted forensic experts visited the country in January 2008 and assisted local experts in the exhumation of some of the remains.