Status of Judicial Commissions in Odisha- Why it is Farce ?

Status of Commission of Inquiry constituted by   Govt. of Odisha  from 2000 to 2017

(Information supplied by Home Dept. as on 12^th April 2017)

1.       Total no. of  22 Commissions of Inquiry  constituted  by State Govt.   have hardly  given justice to the victims.  In many cases,  inquiry  has been closed, The reason is best known to Govt.

2.       These Commissions take  long  time  starting from 2  to 7 years  to   submit the report .

3.       Even after submission of report by Commission, the State Govt. takes two to 5 years to come with  ATR.

4.       Constitution of Judicial Commission  has no way helped the victims to get justice.

5.       It has been used  by the State Govt.  to  cool down public anger and  agitation  and keeps continuity of investigation to cheat the victims.

Sl.No.	Name of Judicial Commission	Date of appointment	Date of submission of Report	Action Taken Report
1	Commission of Inquiry on alleged activities of drug mafia in and around Balasore district by Sri Justice P.C.Nayak/P.K.Mohanty	1.8.2000/ 27.5.2002	31.3.2007	Appropriate Action has been taken  and the report with ATR has been laid in assembly on 19.12.2008.
2	Commission of Inquiry on Violence inside the premises of SCB Medical college and Hospital, Cuttack on 16.7.2000 by Justice P.K.Mishra	7.8.2000	5.11.2002	Appropriate Action has been taken  and the report with ATR has been laid in assembly on 11.8.2006
3	Commission of Inquiry on police firing at village Maikanch under Kashipur police station of Rayagada district on 16.12.2000 by Justice P.K.Mishra	20.1.2001	17.1.2003	Appropriate Action has been taken  and the report with ATR has been laid in assembly on 1.9.2005
4	Commission of Inquiry on Confrontation between police and Members of Bar Association , Puri on 16.10.2001 by Justice A.K.Parichha, District/ session Judge , Khurda at Bhubaneswar	20.10.2001/ 18.8.2008	Closed
5	Commission of Inquiry on Police firing  at Rangabhati  and Raighar villages  in Nabarangpur  district on 30.10.2001 and 11.11.2001 respectively by  Sri Justice Basudev Panigrahi , District and Session Judge, Koraput	4.12.2001/ 5.5.2005	Closed
6	Commission of Inquiry on alleged  custodial death of Dillip Kumar Sahu at Saheed Nagar police station in Khurda district on 3.3.2005  by District & Session Judge, Khurda at Bhubaneswar	13.9.2005	11.9.2009	Appropriate action has been taken. The report along with  memorandum on action taken has been laid in Assembly  on 28.3.2011.
7	Commission of Inquiry  on alleged  custodial death of Gajendra Majhi  in Kuchinda police station on 17.3.2005 by District & Session Judge, Sambalpur	13.9.2005	13.9.2007	Appropriate action has been taken. The report along with  memorandum on action taken has been laid in Assembly on 8.4.2011
8	Commission of Inquiry  on the incident of police firing in front of Champua police station on 8.6.2005  by District & Session Judge , Keonjhar	14.9.2005	18.11.2006	Appropriate action has been taken. The report along with  memorandum on action taken has been laid in assembly on 28.8.2015.
9	Commission of Inquiry  on the incident  of police firing at Kalinga Nagar in Jajpur district  on 2.1.2006  by Justice A.S.Naidu/P.k. Patra/P.K.Mohanty ( Retd.)	4.2.2006 16.1.2008 4.9.2009	3.7.2015	Out of 3 recommendations of the commission, 2 have already been  complied. Regarding payment of  Additional Ex-gratia, GA Deptt. Has already releases Rs. 16,50,000.00 in favour of collector , jajpur for disbursement of 27 injured persons. The report has been laid in the assembly.
10	Commission of Inquiry  on the incident  of stampede inside Shree Jagannath Temple, Puri on 4.11.2006  by Sri Justice P.K.Mohanty	22.11.2006	15.9.2009	Appropriate action has been taken  and the report along with action taken  has been laid in assembly on 16.6.2016
11	Commission of Inquiry on Violent incident  occurred in different parts  of Kandhamal district during December, 2007 by Justice Basudev Panigrahi	29.12.2007	28.11.2015	Appropriate action as per order of Govt. is taken
12	Commission of inquiry on  feasibility of setting up of permanent /circuit Benches  of Odisha High Court  at different places  by Justice C.R.Pal	11.3.2008	31.5.2014	Under examination
13	Commission of Inquiry on Killing of Swami Laxmananda  Saraswati  and others  in Laleshpeta Ashram of Kondhamal district  and incident of violence in its aftermath by Justice  S.C.Mohapatra/ Justice A.S.Naidu	3.9.2008/ 24.9.2012	22.12.2015	Under examination
14	Commission of Inquiry on  Police firing at Bhuban in Dhenkanal district on 22.3.2009 by District and session Judge, Dhenkanal	25.4.2009/ 9.2.2011	Closed
15	Commission of Inquiry  on death of two Engineering students  at Bolangir  on 24.10.2009 by Justice S.K.Mohanty	31.10.2009	14.1.2015	Appropriate action has been taken  and the report along with action taken  has been laid in assembly 28.8.2015
16	Commission of Inquiry on Police firing at Bagalpur village in Cuttack district on 23.8.2010 by Justice S.K.Mohanty	13.10.2010	30.5.2015	Appropriate action has been taken  and the report along with action taken  has been laid in assembly on 29.9.2016
17	Commission of inquiry  on the incident involving a Judicial Magistrate  and the local police at Rourkela  on 2.4.2011 by Justice A.S.Naidu	16.4.2011	21.1.2013	Appropriate action has been taken  and the report along with action taken  has been laid in assembly on 28.8.2015
18	Commission of Inquiry on the incident of grievous injury to a girl  of village Arjungoda, PS- Pipil  in Puri district on 30.11.2011 by Justice P.K.Mohanty	13.1.2012	29.3.2016	Appropriate action has been taken  as per Govt.  orders. ATRs have been  received from H &FW Deptt. And DGP police.
19	Commission of Inquiry  on unauthorised Collection  of Public Deposits  in the state  by  Justice R.K.Patra/ Justice  M.M.Das	9.7.2013/ 5.2.2015	1st report  on 25.5.2016 2nd report on 3.2.2017	Continuing
20	Commission of Inquiry on police firing  at Phasipada village of Khalikote  Block under Kodala P.S. in Ganjam district as on 31.3.2012 by Additional session Judge –cum-Special judge , Vigilance, Berhampur	30.4.2012	31.5.2015	Appropriate action has been taken  and the report along with action taken  has been laid in assembly on 16.5.2016
21	Commission of Inquiry  on Police firing at Gumudumaha in Kondhamal district on 8.7.2016 by District and Session Judge , Kandhamal	22.7.2016	----	Continuing
22	Commission of Inquiry on the fire incident at SUM Hospital , Bhubaneswar on 17.10.2016 by  RDC, Central Division, Cuttack	19.10.2016	----	Continuing

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Date-30.10.2017