With pressure building on the Congress to make public the Nanavati Commission report on the 1984 riots, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today said there was ‘‘nothing to hide’’ and that the report would be made public ‘‘in due course as per the set procedure’’. Patil, however, did not indicate the timeframe within which the report would be acted upon or when it would be made public. The National Commission for Minorities has already sought a copy of the report.Sources in the Union Home Ministry said because of mounting pressure from the opposition, the government is considering placing the report and an action taken report in the later part of the budget session. ‘‘The details on when and how will be decided but the report will have to placed before Parliament,’’ a senior Home ministry official said.‘‘There is nothing of which we can be shy because we know how we had conducted ourselves, how our leaders had conducted themselves. There is nothing to hide,’’ Patil said. At a two-day national conference, NCM chairperson Tarlochan Singh said: ‘‘They should at least give the report to us.I don’t expect any justice from it, by this time all the record must have vanished.1984 riots remains a blot.our regret is that had government handled it sincerely, many more such situations would have been averted.’’
