‘Aruna Jegadeesan panel to complete probe by February’
The Hindu
Commission’s advocate says Collector, SP will be the last witnesses
Justice Aruna Jegadeesan Commission probing the police firing during the anti-Sterlite protest in Thoothukudi in May 2018 that claimed 13 lives will submit its report by February next year, Commission’s advocate Arul Vadivel Sekar has said. Speaking to reporters here at the Commission’s 29th sitting on Friday, Mr. Sekar said the Commission had summoned 1,209 persons and 863 of them had recorded their statements so far by appearing before the Commission, which had marked 1,140 evidences. Summons were served to the witnesses at least 15 days in advance as most of them had moved to other places.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.