Kathmandu, Aug. 29 -- At the end of the three-month deadline to lodge cases, the volume of complaints related to the insurgency-era atrocities have increased by around a fourth.

With 63,718 complaints pending, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has received 15,157 new cases, taking the final tally to 78,875. The Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons, on the other hand, has received 97 additional complaints.

The disappearance commission had a total of 3,288 complaints. After preliminary study, the commission said 2,508 fall under its jurisdiction for investigation. With the addition of 97 complaints, the tally has gone up to 2,605.

"Our expectation was around 10,000. But we received 50 percent more complaints,...