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Patna,(BiharTimes): One day after the leader of opposition in Bihar Assembly, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, sought a CBI probe into the delay in granting extension to one-man Commission probing the Forbesganj police firing in which four people were killed on June 3 last, deputy chief minister, Sushil Kumar Modi, on Tuesday conceded that there has been a procedural delay in extension of term of the judicial Commission headed by Justice Madhavendra Sharan as the finance department proposal in the matter could not be put up for cabinet approval. |
However, he added that the proposal for extension of the panel’s term would be put up for approval at the next cabinet meeting.
Interestingly, only on Monday Modi had said that the Commission had already been given extension. Now he clarified that the finance department had cleared it but could not be tabled before the cabinet for its nod.
Incidentally, home secretary, Amir Subhani, too contradicted Modi’s Monday statement.
Siddiqui had on Monday said that the one-man Commission had no constitutional right to go ahead with the probe as its tenure has expired last month. The state government had constituted the Commission under Justice Madhavendra Sharan, a retired Patna High Court judge, to probe into the matter.
The four persons killed included a pregnant woman and an infant. Besides, a TV shot showed how a policeman jumped over the body of seriously injured youth till he breathed his last.
Though Modi admitted procedural delay his ministerial colleague Giriraj Singh said on Tuesday that RJD had been left with no other work but to make fantastic allegations.
Meanwhile, LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan, on Tuesday also sought CBI probe into the matter.
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