Hostage to Votebanks ; the Long Lost Srikrishna Commission Report has Returned to Become More of a Political Gimmick Than a Justice-Seeking Issue for the Mumbai Riot Victims
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As the media went berserk over Sanjay Dutt's conviction, three words--Srikrishna Commission Report--suddenly caught the fancy of the nation's polity. Tossed around by successive governments, the implementation of the report, which probed the 1993 Mumbai riots, has suddenly assumed an importance greater than it was ever accorded. The entire controversy at this juncture, however, seems nothing more than a political rhetoric though pressure is mounting from all quarters including the media and the Supreme Court on the state Government to implement the report.
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Hostage to Votebanks ; the Long Lost Srikrishna Commission Report has Returned to Become More of a Political Gimmick Than a Justice-Seeking Issue for the Mumbai Riot Victims
ter being commissioned by the Congress government in 1993 in the wake of the communal riots, Justice B.N. Srikrishna Commission Report was first tabled before the Sena-BJP government on August 6, 1998. The report clearly indicted Sena heavyweights Bal Thackeray, Manohar Joshi and Madhukar Sarpotdar for fanning the ...
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