The Maharashtra authorities has granted one more extension to the Koregaon Bhima Fee of Inquiry, which is probing into the causes of violence reported in Pune’s Koregaon Bhima space on January 1, 2018.
An order on this regard was handed by Chetan Nikam, deputy secretary, dwelling division, on Monday. As per this order, the fee has been granted an extension until Could 31, 2025.
It might be recalled that widespread violence passed off in Koregaon Bhima space on January 1, 2018, in the course of the 2 hundredth commemoration of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon. One individual had died and several other others have been left injured within the riots.
The state authorities constituted a two-member fee headed by retired excessive court docket decide Justice J N Patel on February 9, 2018. Former chief secretary Sumit Mallick is the second member of the fee.
Initially, the fee was given 4 months’ time to conduct the inquiry and submit its report. However its tenure needed to be repeatedly prolonged to permit it to finish its work. The fee couldn’t operate in the course of the Covid pandemic. The final extension was granted until February 28, 2025.
V V Palnitkar, the fee’s secretary, stated {that a} standing report was submitted to the federal government looking for extra time for finishing the work. “Now that the extension has been granted, the additional schedule of the fee might be introduced shortly. Examination of witnesses has been achieved and last arguments are being recorded,” stated Palnitkar.
Whereas granting the recent extension, the federal government has requested the fee to finish its work and submit the ultimate report by Could 31, 2025. That is the seventeenth extension given to the fee.
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To date, the fee has recorded statements from over 50 witnesses, who embrace villagers from Koregaon Bhima and Vadhu Budruk, senior politicians like Sharad Pawar, Prakash Ambedkar, authorities and police officers and activists.
The fee has been conducting its listening to in Pune. The latest hearings have been held from February 21 to 25. Legal professionals representing completely different witnesses and events are submitting their last arguments to the fee.
