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Maharashtra willing to refer Srikrishna report to investigating agencies

The Maharashtra government informed the Supreme Court on Friday that it was willing to refer the conclusions of the Srikrishna Commission report on Bombay riots to investigating agencies which could further probe the matter and initiate prosecution as per the law.

Former attorney-general Ashok Desai, appearing for the Maharashtra government, told this to a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice A S Anand, Justice R C Lahoti and Justice N Santosh Hegde. This was the resumed hearing of a bunch of public interest litigation petitions seeking that the state government be directed to implement the report, submitted on February 16, 1998 when Manohar Joshi was the chief minister.

The court, however, adjourned the matter for six weeks since one petitioner asserted that the Action Taken Report tabled in the state assembly that rejected the recommendations should first be quashed by the court.

The report had indicted among others Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray for organising attacks against Muslims in the aftermath of the serial bomb blasts which rocked Bombay in 1993.

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