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Bhubaneswar: The State government has not presented the probe reports of various sensitive issues starting from the Gumudumaha police firing to SUM Hospital fire mishap, revealed a written reply of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to a query of BJP MLA Dilip Ray in the Odisha Assembly today.
The State government has constituted 12 Commissions of Inquiry since 2008 out of which 9 reports have been received by the government. However, only 4 have been presented in the Assembly.
Odisha government had constituted the Justice Sarat Chandra Mohapatra Commission of Inquiry to probe the murder of VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and the large scale ethno-communal riot in Kandhamal in 2008. But Justice Mohapatra passed away in 2012 before completing the inquiry, after which Justice A S Naidu was appointed by the government to head the one-man probe panel.
Patnaik in his reply stated that Rs 2 crore was spent on the commission which submitted its report to government in December 2015. However, the report is still to be tabled in the State Assembly.
Similarly, the Justice CR Pal Commission for setting up permanent benches of Orissa High Court in different parts of the State was formed in 2008. The panel submitted its report to the government six years later, but it is still to be tabled in the House, revealed the CM's reply. State government has spent Rs 1.61 crore on the Commission.
The highest amount of Rs 4.23 crore has been spent on the Commission of Inquiry to probe the multi-crore chit fund scam in Odisha, informed Patnaik. The probe panel which was formed in 2013 was first headed by Justice RK Patra and later by Justice MM Das. It has submitted four interim reports till date, but not a single one of them has been tabled in the House.
While the RDC submitted its report on SUM Hospital fire mishap to the State government in June, 2017, it is yet to be tabled in the Odisha Assembly. On the other hand, the inquiry into the Bhuban firing has been closed, stated Patnaik.
The commission of inquiry headed by Koraput district judge to investigate into the alleged gang rape of a minor girl of Kunduli in Koraput district is the recent among all the commissions after it was formed in December last year.
It had been asked to submit its report within three months. While it has been six months since the minor girl alleged gang rape by four persons in uniform and three months have passed since her suicide, the commission has made no headway in the case, as reported by the Chief Minister.
