Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 Measures taken/current situation Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) OMP on being reported by the OMP to the Court of Appeal shall be punishable by the Court of Appeal.63 Centre for Justice and Change The Act provides these powers. The OMP is yet to use it in investigation to test their authority and power. Families of the Disappeared Though the act says these things yet in action OMP has not proved the powers they are entitled by the act. At least they could not get the list of surrenders yet. If OMP could do that they can win faith from the Tamil families. ICJ The Powers of Investigation of the OMP listed under Section 12 of the Act gives the Office extensive powers, the ambit of which would include the capacity to subpoena information, enter State institutions and have access to any State archive. Section 12 (c) (i) empowers the office to procure and receive statements and (ii) allows it to summon any person before the OMP. Section 12 (f) is also relevant in this regard as the OMP has the power to authorise in writing a specified officer of the OMP to enter without warrant at any time any place of detention, police station, prison or any other place in which any person is suspected to be detained. Section 12 (e) allows the Office to request the assistance necessary for achieving its mandate from any State, Governmental, provincial, local authority, agency or any officer. The President has now allowed the OMP to have full access to the National Archives including the scanning of the archive documents 63 64 Paragraph 42 OMP Act, above n 16, Section 24(2). OMP Act, above n 16, Section 12(d). OMP The OMP has the authority to apply to a Magistrate’s Court, for a court order to carry out an excavation and or exhumation of suspected grave sites, and to act as an observer at such excavation or exhumation.64 Further the OMP’s mandate to establish the fate of missing and The Working Group notes information according to which the OMP played a proactive role as an observer in the Mannar grave exhumation and is 47 A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 (f) Have the technical capacity to conduct exhumations, including forensic expertise;