State chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is likely to announce a list of measures this week to implement the Srikrishna Commission report.
CM will announce steps, but action will follow much later
MUMBAI: State chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is likely to announce a list of measures this week to implement the Srikrishna Commission report. Although critics want the report implemented ‘in toto,’ the government will merely announce its scheme for implementation. Action will be initiated only in the last week of October, when the Supreme Court is expected to issue its directions on the petitions pending in this connection.
The commission, which inquired into the 1992-93 Mumbai communal riots, had indicted several politicians, policemen and officials for various sins of omission and commission.
An action committee for implementation of the Srikrishna report has highlighted over 100 lapses in which either no action was taken or ‘inappropriate’ and ‘inadequate’ action had been taken by the special task force constituted by the state to implement the recommendations.
The list contains 12 major lapses in which senior political leaders were involved and no action had been taken. It also lists 18 cases in which police officers and their staff were involved and again no action had been taken. There are 78 other lapses where either ‘inappropriate’ or ‘inadequate’ action was taken.
Prominent among those named in list are Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, former Lok Sabha speaker and former chief minister Manohar Joshi, former minister of state for home Gajanan Kirtikar, former legislator Madhukar Sarpotdar and former MLA and now Congress MP Eknath Gaikwad.
On Monday, chief minister Deshmukh had a long meeting with police commissioner DN Jadhav and senior officials at Mantralaya and reviewed the status of implementation of the commission’s report.
According to sources, the central leadership of the Congress is mounting pressure on Deshmukh to do some ‘damage control’ at the earliest since the minorities are developing a feeling that the justice system is skewed. While members from the minority community have been given life or death sentences in the 1993 blasts cases, nothing has been done to bring the perpetrators of the riots to book.
The ball was set rolling on July 24 when the CM convened a meeting with the representatives of the action committee for the implementation of the Srikrishna report. The committee was led by Congress MLA Naseem Khan and film director Mahesh Bhatt.
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