JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir government has decided not to give any extension to a one-man inquiry commission constituted by former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to probe killing of around 112 civilian protesters in six month long 2010 unrest, a senior official of the law department said.
The official said previous government had given three months to the commission after it was constituted in 2014 to complete the probe in the killings and submit the report to the government.
“But the Commission is seeking extension after extension making it impossible for the government to give it further extension. You cannot have this commission till eternity,” the official said, a report by India today said today.
The report quoting the official said by March the Commission should submit the report along with the recommendations and if it failed to do so the government would wind it up and would look for some other alternative.
Of 62 cases, the Commission since August 2014 has completed only eight cases of the civilian killings.
In June 2014 Omar Abdullah government appointed the one-man judicial commission of Justice (retd) M L Koul to probe killing of over 120 civilian protesters including two women, who were killed in police and security forces firing at different places across the valley.
Justice Koul insists with one peon and a clerk he had been given the task to probe the killings. “It would take time. I want an extension of one more year,” he said.
The government, however, says the Commission has taken at least 18 months and it will not be given further extension.
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