22 116 the committal stage, poses no obstacle for the adoption of the corresponding ruling.” Consequently, the Criminal Chamber ordered the case file returned to the Fourth National Superior Criminal Prosecutor for 117 the representative of Public Prosecution Service to issue the legally required ruling. 112. On July 14, 2006, more than three years after the proceedings were reopened and almost 12 years after the incident took place, the Fourth National Superior Criminal Prosecutor filed charges against Antonio Mauricio Evangelista Pinedo for the crimes against life, body, and health (simple homicide) with respect to Zulema Tarazona Arrieta and Norma Teresa Pérez Chávez, and for grievous bodily harm against Luis Alberto Bejarano, and requested the imposition of a ten-year custodial sentence and the joint payment, with the civilly responsible third party, of 30,000 new sols as redress civil for each 118 of the victims. As of October 3, 2006, the accused Antonio Mauricio Evangelista Pinedo was a fugitive from justice, and no date had been set for the start of oral proceedings since he had not appeared before 119 the National Criminal Chamber. 113. Later, between the years 2007 and 2008, the petitioners asked the President of the National Criminal Chamber on three occasions to update the warrant for the arrest of the accused Antonio Mauricio Evangelista Pinedo and, in addition, to contact: (1) the Warrants Office of the National Police for his immediate location, arrest, and referral to the judicial authorities; (2) the Immigration Directorate of the Interior Ministry and the National Office of Electoral Processes, for them to report, respectively, if the accused had entered or left the country recently and if he had voted in the most recent elections; and (3) the Judicial Police, for it to report on the steps taken to detain the accused Antonio 120 Mauricio Evangelista Pinedo. 114. On July 12, 2007, the Immigration Directorate of the Interior Ministry informed the 121 National Criminal Chamber that no migratory movements were on record for the accused. On July 16, 2007, the National Office of Electoral Processes informed the National Criminal Chamber that Antonio Evangelista Pinedo had voted in the first round of the 2006 general election and in that year’s regional 122 and municipal elections. 115. On June 27, 2008, the National Criminal Chamber set July 21, 2008, for the start of oral proceedings, since the clerk’s office had informed it that the accused was in detention at the Lurigancho 123 Penitentiary. 116 Annex 74: Document of the National Criminal Chamber of May 31, 2006, signed by July Camargo Mondragón, Secretary of the Clerk’s Office, National Criminal Chamber. Annex to the State’s submission of October 12, 2006. 117 Annex 74: Document of the National Criminal Chamber of May 31, 2006, signed by July Camargo Mondragón, Secretary of the Clerk’s Office, National Criminal Chamber. Annex to the State’s submission of October 12, 2006. 118 Annex 3: Ruling No. 12-2006-4ºFSPN-MP/FN of the Fourth National Superior Criminal Prosecutor of the Public Prosecution Service, case file No. 13-06, July 14, 2006. Annex to the State’s communication of October 12, 2006. 119 Annex 75: National Criminal Chamber, Resolution No. 483, case file No. 13-06, signed by July Camargo Mondragón, Secretary of the Clerk’s Office. Annex to the petitioners’ submission of July 27, 2011. 120 See Annex 76: Undated document from the International Federation for Human Rights addressed to the President of the National Criminal Chamber in case file 13-2006; Annex to the petitioners’ submission of July 27, 2011. Annex 77: Document from the International Federation for Human Rights addressed to the President of the National Criminal Chamber in case file 132006, received on November 19, 2007; Annex to the petitioners’ submission of July 27, 2011. Annex 78: Document from the International Federation for Human Rights addressed to the President of the National Criminal Chamber in case file 13-2006, received on March 3, 2008. Annex to the petitioners’ submission of July 27, 2011. 121 Annex 78: Document from the International Federation for Human Rights addressed to the President of the National Criminal Chamber in case file 13-2006, received on March 3, 2008. Annex to the petitioners’ submission of July 27, 2011. 122 Annex 78: Document from the International Federation for Human Rights addressed to the President of the National Criminal Chamber in case file 13-2006, received on March 3, 2008. Annex to the petitioners’ submission of July 27, 2011. 123 Annex 79: National Criminal Chamber, case file No. 13-06, document dated June 27, 2008. Annex to the petitioners’ submission of July 27, 2011.