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Synopsis The National Human Rights Commission has been finding itself called upon to play enlarging role in the current situation. More than five years after the start of the militant violence in Kashmir, the commission has been receiving a number of cases and complaints involving the human rights violations there. This week, the Panun Kashmir Movement (PKM) presented a pile of documents to the NHRC listing the violations of human rights through acts of terrorism. The documents list the social and psychological trauma their community has been put through as a result of these happenings. The PKM also took up with the commission matters regarding instances of alleged bias and discrimination demonstrated by the state apparatus. This concerned cases of promotions, transfers and education of children. Describing the National Human Rights Commission as a sacred product of an Act of Parliament', it underlined the high expectations the affected people had from the NHRC.