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Bhagalpur riots probe panel blames then Congress government
Patna, Aug 7
The Bhagalpur Riots Probe
Commission's report was tabled in the Bihar assembly on Friday by the
government ignoring the noisy scenes created by the BJP.
The
report blamed then Congress government in the state and local
administration and police for the riots, which claimed over 1,000 lives.
The
chairman of the panel Justice (retd) N.N. Singh, in his report,
categorically said the failure of the district administration and police
to take immediate action resulted in the riots.
"If district administration and local police had taken actions and measures, riots could be avoided," he said.
In February this year, the Bhagalpur Riots Probe Commission submitted its report to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Soon
after coming to power in November 2005, Nitish Kumar had set up an
inquiry commission under Justice (retd) N.N. Singh to probe the 1989
communal Bhagalpur riots.
Kumar had appointed the probe panel in
February 2006 in view of the state cabinet's decision to get 27 cases of
the communal riots re-investigated to bring the guilty to book and
punish the officials responsible for their acquittal, despite
substantial evidence against them.