Retired Bombay High Court judge to conduct inquiry; lack of infrastructure led to 4 months’ delay.
The one-man judicial probe to investigate the police firing in Maval in Pune district took off almost four months after the incident.
The probe will be conducted by a retired judge of the Bombay high court, justice MG Gaikwad and is housed on the premises of the old Zilla Parishad building. Lack of clear guidelines from the state government and proper infrastructure delayed the setting up of the probe.
The death of three farmers in the police firing on August 9 had compelled home minister RR Patil to announce the setting up of the judicial inquiry. Kantabai Thakar (45), Moreshwar Sathe (40) and Shamrao Tupe (29) died on the Pune-Mumbai expressway during a demonstration against the proposed closed pipeline project to lift water from the Pavana river to Pimpri-Chinchwad.
The then superintendent of police (Pune rural), Sandeep Karnik, was blamed by local political leaders for mismanaging the protest and was subsequently transferred to Mumbai. Patil, while responding to the matter on the floor of the legislative assembly on August 10, had announced the setting up of a time-bound one-man judicial inquiry into the incident.
KD Patil, secretary of the inquiry, told DNA that the preliminary procedures involving in framing of the regulations and procedure to be followed have been framed and sent for publishing in the Gazette last Friday.
Patil said that within the next few days, public notices would be issued by the probe inviting people who want to dispose before it to file affidavits on six major issues identified as relevant. “The time frame for filing the affidavits would be three weeks,” he said.
After the three weeks, the affidavits would be scrutinised and irrelevant or frivolous affidavits discarded.
“Based on the affidavits, the people would be examined by the advocates appointed by the state, the advocate of the inquiry committee and advocates engaged by private bodies if any,” he said.
Patil said summons would be issued to individuals to give evidence if it is felt their say is of importance. “The probe would conduct a spot visit if necessary,” he said.
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