Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act

Article 2(k) of the Law defines enforced disappearance as follows: Act of enforced disappearance means any of the following acts: a) not to produce before the adjudicating authority a person who is apprehended, detained or taken in custody in any other manner by the person or security personnel authorised to apprehend or make investigations or enforce the law, or not to allow the concerned persons to visit such a person even after lapse of the deadline to produce them before the adjudicating authority, or not to give information to the concerned persons as to where, how and under which condition such a person has been detained; b) to deprive a person of their personal liberty upon apprehending, abducting, capturing or taking them in custody in any other manner, in the name of any organisation, organised or unorganised group in the course of the armed conflict.