Srikrishna: Govt urges SC to give PIL a quietus

The petitioner had sought the SC’s intervention because the earlier government run by the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance had rejected the Commission report which indicted, among others, Bal Thackeray.

But the present government, in the wake of the PILs, entrusted the crime branch with the task of conducting further investigations ‘‘uninfluenced by the action-taken report’’ submitted by the earlier government. Desai also quoted statistics of the cases in which the police have either filed charge-sheets or taken disciplinary action.