Fadnavis received’t be known as for deposing earlier than Koregaon Bhima Fee of Inquiry | Pune Information

Prakash Ambedkar had submitted a letter in June 2023 to the fee demanding deposition of Fadnavis, Mallick and Suvez Haque, the then superintendent of police, Pune Rural, as witness in reference to the continuing inquiry into the Koregaon Bhima violence.

V V Palnitkar, secretary of the Koregaon Bhima Fee of Inquiry mentioned, “Ambedkar’s letter was already on file, so a contemporary utility on this regard was not submitted by him on Wednesday. The fee spoke to Ambedkar on this matter. The fee has determined to not name the then CM Devendra Fadnavis after which chief secretary Sumit Mallick for deposing as witnesses.”

Chatting with the media individuals, Ambedkar mentioned he has requested the fee to conduct an inquiry into when Fadnavis, Mallick and Haque acquired details about the violence in Koregaon Bhima, whether or not and why there was a delay in receiving the mentioned data.

To this, Palnitkar mentioned, “Fee can be asking particular public prosecutor Shishir Hiray to file a reply on whether or not such a delay was induced in giving details about the Koregaon Bhima violence to the then CM, chief secretary and SP, Pune rural.”

In the meantime, the fee has requested Prakash Ambedkar to submit his remaining arguments through the subsequent listening to on January 17, 2025. It might be recalled that Ambedkar too had deposed as a witness earlier than the fee. However he stop the fee through the listening to on February 12, this yr, whereas he was being cross examined by the SPP Hiray in regards to the ‘Maharashtra bandh’ known as by him on January 3, 2018.

The Fee had then taken it on file that Ambedkar “walked out from the witness field in protest that this challenge will not be the subject material earlier than the Fee of Inquiry, which is constituted solely to look at the incidents of January 1, 2018.”

The state authorities had fashioned the two-member Koregaon Bhima Fee of Inquiry on February 9, 2018. Initially, the fee had been given 4 months to submit its report, however its tenure needed to be repeatedly prolonged to permit it to finish its work. As per a state residence division order, the fee has been just lately granted an extension until February 28, 2025.

Fee has recorded proof of over 50 witnesses, who embrace villagers from Koregaon Bhima, Vadhu Budruk, senior politicians like Sharad Pawar, police and authorities officers together with Suvez Haque, the then Pune district collector Saurabh Rao and different individuals. The Fee is at the moment conducting its listening to in Pune. Legal professionals representing completely different witnesses are submitting their remaining arguments to the fee.