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Supreme Court issues notices to Centre, Maharashtra over Srikrishna report

The Supreme Court today issued notices on a writ petition seeking a direction to the Maharashtra government to hand over the task of action to be taken on the Srikrishna Commission report to an independent agency.

The notices were issued by a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice M M Punchhi, Justices S Rajendra Babu and A P Misra on a petition filed by the Bombay-based Action Committee for Implementation of Srikrishna Commission Report and four others.

The Centre and the Maharashtra government are respondents in the petition.

The petition has also sought quashing of the memorandum of action to be taken on the report as notified by the state government, besides declaring as ''void and unconstitutional'' the sub-section (4) of section (3) of the Commission of Inquiry Act that confers uncontrolled and unfettered powers on state governments to reject the report of a commission in part or in full or criticise its findings on selective basis.

The petitioners have also pleaded that in the alternative, the state government should be directed to pay adequate compensation to the 1992-93 Bombay riot victims.

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