prayers in writ petiton regarding encounters

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
 CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1255 OF 1999
 Peoples Union for Civil Liberties & Anr. ... Appellants
 Versus
 State of Maharashtra & Ors. ... Respondents
 WITH
 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1256 OF 1999
 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1367 OF 1999
 WRIT PETITION (C) NO.316 OF 2008
 CONTEMPT PETITION (C) No.47 OF 2011
 IN
 WRIT PETITION (C) NO.316 OF 2008
 TRANSFERRED CASE (C) NO.27 OF 2011
 O R D E R
 R.M. LODHA, CJI.

In the three writ petitions, which were filed by Peoples Union
for Civil Liberties (for short, PUCL) before the Bombay High Court, the
issue of genuineness or otherwise of nearly 99 encounters between the
Mumbai police and the alleged criminals resulting in death of about 135
persons between 1995 and 1997 was raised. Inter alia, the following
prayers were made:
 i) directing the Respondent Nos. 1 to 3 to furnish the
 particulars regarding the number of persons killed in last one
 year in police encounters, their names, addresses, the
 circumstances in which they were killed, the inquiries, if any,
 conducted with respect to the said killings and any other
 relevant information and the action taken, if any, by them;

 ii) directing the respondent No. 1 i.e. State of
 Maharashtra to register offence under Section 302 of Indian
 Penal Code and other enactments against the police officers
 found prima-facie responsible for the violations of
 fundamental rights and other provisions of the Indian Penal
 Code and other relevant enactments;

 iii) directing the 4th respondent viz., the Coroner of
 Mumbai to submit a detailed report and the details of action
 taken by him under the provisions of the Coroners Act 1871;

 iv) directing an appropriate authority to enquire into and
 report to this Court in all the police encounters that have
 taken place not only in the city of Mumbai but also in the
 entire State of Maharashtra in which persons have been
 killed or injured in police encounters;

 v) directing the State of Maharashtra to constitute the
 Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission as provided
 under Section 21 and other provisions contained in the
 Human Rights Act 1993,

 vi) directing the State Government to frame appropriate
 guidelines governing planning and carrying out encounters
 for the purpose of protection of life and liberty guaranteed