to, on the basis of complaints or information received by him by any means, investigate allegations of inhuman treatment of any person in custody, no reports of any investigations were received. Non-governmental sources: The “investigations” by the so-called Nepal Police Human Rights Cells, consist of sending a letter detailing the complaint to the relevant District Police Office (DPO), asking it to respond to the allegations. No reports of suspensions of police officers pending the outcome of the investigations were received. The report of the Rayamajhi Commission recommended the prosecution of 31 members of the Nepalese Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force, largely in connection with killings which had occurred in the context of the protests, but no action has been taken to initiate prosecutions by the authorities. No one has been prosecuted for the many cases of serious beatings which occurred in the context of the protests. Despite repeated requests by OHCHR to the Government to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into allegations of torture at the Maharajgunj barracks under the control of the Nepal Army’s Bhairabnath Battalion, no proper investigation has been undertaken. In December 2008, OHCHR published a report documenting torture and ill-treatment in Bardiya District during the conflict and has called on the Government to investigate and take action against the perpetrators. No investigation has been initiated, and at least one known perpetrator continues to serve with the Nepal Army. The National Human Rights Commission of Nepal (NHRC), mandated to investigate alleged violations of human rights, rarely sees its recommendations to the Government implemented in practice. In its annual report 2007-2008, the NHRC cited this inaction on the part of the Government as one of the major challenges in its work. Some NGOs also regularly file complaints to the Nepal Police Human Rights Cell and to the Attorney General’s Department. However, the Human Rights Cell’s definition of "investigation" appears to comprise merely of sending a letter with details of the complaint to the A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 123 There have been no independent investigations into the allegations of systematic torture and disappearances in 2003/2004 by the Bhairabnath Battalion, which were documented in OHCHR’s May 2006 report. In December 2007, a site was identified where the body of one of the disappeared may have been cremated. A group of Finnish withhold its cooperation with the Nepal Police investigation.