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SC to hear CBI probe plea on Wednesday

The Centre said it was committed to its constitutional obligations and to taking necessary steps to redress the grievances of the riot-hit Kandhamal district in Orissa.

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NEW DELHI: The Centre said on Tuesday it was committed to its constitutional obligations and to taking necessary steps to redress the grievances of the riot-hit Kandhamal district in Orissa, where many churches have been burnt in the aftermath of the death of VHP leader Laxmananand Saraswati on August 23.

The government’s senior-most additional solicitor general Gopal Subramanium made this submission before the supreme court that’s seized of a PIL filed by archbishop of Cuttack Raphael Cheenath seeking a CBI probe into the violence and compensation for the victims.

The archbishop has also sought an inquiry into the deployment of RAF in the affected villages.

Initially, the court headed by chief justice KG Balakrishnan asked the archbishop to approach the Orissa high court but later it decided to hear his PIL on Wednesday when counsel Colin Gonsalves expressed inability in moving the HC as the petitioner feared for his life.

“The situation is tense and it is difficult for the archbishop to move in Orissa as he has received threatening letters,” he said. “They (supporters of VHP leader Laxmananand) are saying ‘since you (missionaries) have killed our head, we will kill your head’,” Gonsalves claimed.
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