Amar softens on Jamia probe

While judicial probes hold more teeth as they are constituted under the Commission of Inquiry Act, fact-finding committees could be set up by an executive order. The Government is bound to table the reports of judicial inquiries to the legislatures and submit an action-taken report, but this is not mandatory in case of fact-finding committees.

Singh8217;s climbdown comes amid the realisation within the party that it may find it difficult to force the Government to constitute a judicial probe while it wants to assuage the misgivings of its minority support base. The SP can now claim to have stood for the sensitivities of its minority support base without making it difficult for the Government to heed to its demands.