DF govt not going slow on Srikrishna report implementation: CM

MUMBAI: In the backdrop of the charge that his government was going slow on implementing the Srikrishna Commission report on 1992-93 riots in Mumbai, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Saturday said certain cases mentioned in the probe would be re-examined and the guilty will not be spared.

"Various NGOs have met us on the issue of implementing the report. We are in touch with them. Whatever is possible, we will do. It is not that we are not going to implement the report", Deshmukh said.

Deshmukh said a committee set up by his government will check if certain cases mentioned in the report could be re-examined.

"There are cases against mainly policemen. There is a demand for re-examination of these cases. We have already appointed a committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary (Home). It will study if certain cases could be re-examined", said Deshmukh, who completes three years of his second term as head of the Congree-NCP-led government on November one.

Deshmukh said any delay in implementation was because the evidence has to be recreated.

"We have to reinvestigate and recreate the whole evidence. That is the reason it takes time", he said, adding the incidents took place 15 years ago and collecting information in a case, which was dumped by the previous BJP-Shiv Sena government, was going to take some time.

Evidence given before the Commission is not acceptable in the court, Deshmukh said, emphasising that the government wants to ensure that the evidence should be accepted in a court of law.