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The Bharatiya Janata Party authorities led by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has alleged that 2 judicial committee of enquiry reports had gone missing from authoritative authorities records during the erstwhile Naveen Patnaik government.
The State Home Department has sought registration of an FIR, alleging that 2 enquiry reports, namely the A.S. Naidu Commission study connected the sidesplitting of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and others successful Jaleshpeta Ashram successful Kandhamal district, and a Revenue Divisional Commissioner-level enquiry study connected the occurrence incidental astatine SUM Hospital and Medical College, Bhubaneswar, remained untraceable successful the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO).
Sarat Chandra Marandi, Joint Secretary successful the Home Department, filed a ailment astatine the Capital Police Station seeking an probe into the disappearance of the enquiry reports.
“The 2 committee reports, on with respective different reports and files, were duly transmitted by the Home Department to the Chief Minister’s Office done the bureau of the Chief Secretary successful the mean people of authoritative concern for information and indispensable action. The Naidu Commission study was sent to the CMO connected October 19, 2016, portion the RDC enquiry study was transmitted to the CMO connected May 24, 2018,” Mr. Marandi stated.
He pointed retired that “recently Home Department has learnt that the 2 committee reports were not disposable successful the CMO and stay untraceable contempt searches undertaken by the acrophobic authorities”.
“Several different reports and files which had been forwarded by the Home Department to the CMO successful the mean people of authoritative concern were subsequently returned to the Home Department connected June 4, 2024, the day connected which counting of votes for the Odisha Legislative Assembly predetermination was conducted and the results indicating a alteration successful authorities became known,” the authoritative said.
“However, contempt the instrumentality of different files and records, the 2 peculiar committee reports were not returned from CMO and are presently untraceable. The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of these 2 reports, peculiarly erstwhile different files forwarded during the aforesaid play were returned, make a tenable suspicion that the reports whitethorn person been intentionally removed, retained, concealed, destroyed oregon different unlawfully dealt with,” the ailment alleged.
“The said reports represent important authorities records prepared by a Judicial Commission of Inquiry and their disappearance from authoritative custody is simply a substance of superior nationalist interest requiring thorough investigation. The facts and circumstances disclose a tenable crushed for suspecting committee of cognisable offences relating to unauthorised removal, transgression breach of trust, concealment and/or demolition of authoritative records,” the section further alleged.
The Home Department sought an probe to ascertain the circumstances starring to the disappearance of the reports, place the persons liable and instrumentality enactment successful accordance with law.
The sidesplitting of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and respective others successful 2008 had triggered large-scale communal unit betwixt Hindus and Christians successful Kandhamal district. It remains 1 of the astir important incidents of anti-Christian unit recorded successful the State. Laxmanananda Saraswati was a salient person associated with the Sangh Parivar and was known for his run against what helium described arsenic spiritual conversions successful Kandhamal.
Until 2008, the BJP and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) were conjugation partners successful the State government. The BJD aboriginal severed ties with the BJP, accusing it of pursuing a communal agenda. In the 2009 elections, the 2 parties contested separately.
Similarly, the occurrence incidental astatine SUM Hospital and Medical College, Bhubaneswar, had enactment the past Naveen Patnaik authorities nether scrutiny. Following extended media sum of the incident, past Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak resigned from the Ministry.
