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Retired High Court Judge, Justice R.S. Chauhan, was appointed the caput of the three-member judicial sheet that volition probe the February 5 blast astatine an amerciable ember excavation successful Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district, successful which 31 radical were killed, according to a notification.
The sheet has been tasked with fixing accountability and examining imaginable law exemptions to cardinal mining laws, said the notification dated February 14.
Retired IPS serviceman H. Nongpluh and erstwhile IAS serviceman P.S. Dkhar are the different members of the panel, acceptable up nether the Commission of Inquiry Act 1952, it said.
Justice Chauhan was the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court and the Telangana High Court.
The committee volition behaviour a broad fact-finding workout into the detonation astatine the amerciable excavation successful the distant Thangsku country of Mynsngat village, according to the notification.
"The Commission whitethorn taxable its study embodying the findings and its recommendations thereon to the State Government wrong a play of 6 (six) months from the day of the notification," it said.
The committee has been mandated to place acts oregon omissions by authorities and analyse whether lapses contributed to the disaster.
Beyond fixing responsibility, the sheet volition analyse the basal causes of amerciable ember mining successful Meghalaya and reappraisal the moving conditions of labourers babelike connected the industry, the notification said.
It volition besides urge remedial measures, administrative reforms and fiscal rehabilitation schemes for those affected by the National Green Tribunal's 2014 prohibition connected ember mining.
Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma had connected February 9 announced the judicial enquiry into the blast.
Meanwhile, the authorities transferred East Jaintia Hills S.P. Vikash Kumar and posted him arsenic the caput of the Anti-Narcotics Task Force, according to different notification.
ANTF main PK Rasgania volition beryllium the caller SP of East Jaintia Hills.
