Since its inception on the 12th October, 1993 till 1st October, 2015, the National Human Rights Commission registered more than 15 lakh cases. During the last year, from the 1st October, 2014 to 1st October, 2015, it registered 1,17,888 cases of Human Rights violation. Out of this, 98,460 cases were disposed. During this period, the Commission recommended payment of total Rs.6,95,10,000/- as monetary relief. Most of these cases related to alleged police inaction in protection of human rights, abuse of power by police, false implication by police, dowry death and harassment for dowry, indignity of women and inaction by State authorities, etc.
During this period, the Commission intervened in various important cases, such as killing of two youths and injury to others in firing by Army in Chattergam area in Budgam, J&K; allegations of 30 thousand quacks practicing in Tamil Nadu, notice to 27 State Governments on the steps taken by them to address the problem of fluorosis; vandalizing of churches in Delhi and other places; killing of alleged red Sandal smugglers in Andhra Pradesh, etc.
The Commission organised 09 Camp Sittings and Open Hearings and in this connection visited Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Chandigarh (for the States of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and UT of Chandigarh), Allahabad (for eight districts of Uttar Pradesh), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Hyderabad (for the States of Telengana and Andhra Pradesh) and Puducherry. The Camp Sittings were focused on disposal of pending cases and Open Hearings on the complaints of atrocities against Scheduled Castes.