Commissions of Omission ; the Demand for a Judicial Inquiry Into the Batla House Encounter May Be Politically Motivated but It Also Shows the Need for Reform or a New Method to Get at the Truth. Not a Single Probe in the Past Few Years has Resulted in Any Concrete Action.

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When in trouble or in doubt, order a commission of inquiry. It's become the most convenient band aid for political expediency when governments are faced with official lapses and security failures.

In most cases, starkly illustrated by the longrunning Liberhan Commission, it either succeeds in burying the truth or delaying the verdicts and the disclosures of actual facts to the point where it becomes meaningless.

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Commissions of Omission ; the Demand for a Judicial Inquiry Into the Batla House Encounter May Be Politically Motivated but It Also Shows the Need for Reform or a New Method to Get at the Truth. Not a Single Probe in the Past Few Years has Resulted in Any Concrete Action.

It is also a political weapon used by the Opposition to embarrass the party in power and simultaneously appeal to specific votebanks.

As is clearly the case with the recent demand by politicians like Amar Singh, Mamata Banerjee and even Union Minister Kapil Sibal for a judicial inquiry into the Batla House encounter in which two alleged terrorists were shot dead in a Muslim-dominated colony in the capital, despite the fact th...

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