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CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS

Section 36: Matters not subject to jurisdiction of the Commission

The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993

(1) The Commission shall not inquire into any matter which is pending before a State Commission or any other Commission duly constituted under any law for the time being in force.

(2) The Commission or the State Commission shall not inquire into any matter after the expiry of one year from the date on which the act constituting violation of human rights is alleged to have been committed.

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  1. 1. In March of a year, P lodges a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission about custodial torture that, according to the complaint itself, took place fourteen months earlier. No other commission is inquiring into it. Under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, the Commission:

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