To call or not to call Modi,others: Nanavati panel replies to HC

The report was submitted after the HC on June 17 granted a week’s time to the government to comply with its order to the Commission to make its stand clear on the matter.

Following the order,Government Pleader Prakash Jani today produced a letter from the Commission addressed to him along with a sealed envelope sent by the probe panel to be submitted before the court.

The HC had sought the status report while acting on a petition filed by Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM),a voluntary organisation fighting a legal battle for the 2002 riot victims. The petition had demanded the summoning of Modi and six others by the Commission to probe their role and conduct in the statewide communal riots. The Commission had turned down the demand. Following this,JSM moved the higher court. Further hearing on the petition has been kept for June 30.

The Commission,appointed by the government,was last week granted another extension of six months till December 31.