Nanavati panel seeks Alexander146;s comment

The Commission, however, declined the request of the Carnage Justice Committee CJC to issue summons to the retired bureaucrats due to lack of time. The panel8217;s term is due to lapse on November 2.

Justice Nanavati, who is simultaneously conducting an inquiry into the Gujarat riots, indicated that he would not seek any further extension of the Delhi probe, which has been on for over four years.This means the submission of the inquiry report8212;the second on the 1984 carnage8212;will coincide with its 20th anniversary.

The earlier report, submitted by the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission in 1986, was widely alleged to have 8216;whitewashed8217; the role of the Rajiv Gandhi Government and the Congress in the violence that followed Indira Gandhi8217;s assassination.

The Nanavati Commission is holding its last public sitting tomorrow, when it is due to hear the counsel for Gavai and two Union ministers, Kamal Nath and Jagdish Tytler, who had been issued notices for alleged complicity.

The Commission will also hear arguments on an application filed by the CJC over two years ago, seeking withdrawal of the President8217;s gallantry medal from a senior police officer, Amod Kanth. Kanth had been honoured for arresting a Sikh family during the riots even though its members had said they fired from their own home in self defence.