The Madhya Pradesh Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), in a landmark judgment, on Tuesday ordered the State Government to make available the report of Justice SK Pande on the Ratangarh   stampede case of 2006 within 15 days to Right To Information (RTI) activist Ajay Dubey.

The CIC order came in compliance with the High Court order directing the CIC to make available the said report to Dubey within six weeks. Dubey was personally present during the hearing.Dubey, later talking to The Pioneer, said, “The former CIC PP Tiwari had also issued orders for the same but they were not complied with. Due to that we took the matter to the High Court in the year 2013. The High Court in its order over the issue instructed the State Government to make available the copy of the report to the RTI activist within six weeks.”

Dubey alleged that the State Government made every possible effort to prolong the process but at last the justice came and the CIC, KD Khan, in a landmark judgment instructed the State Government to make available the said report within 15 days.He said the then CIC, hearing the petition, had ordered to provide within 15 days the enquiry report.Besides, notice was issued to the Public Information Officer, Rajesh Kaul, asking that why a fine be not imposed on him.“We reached the High Court as the Government failed to provide the said report,” he added.

The Justice SK Pande Commission had inquired into the accidental death of many people in a stampede at  Ratangarh temple in Datia district in 2006 He said that Justice Pande submitted his report to the State Government on March 21, 2007 but the State Government in order to save a big officer responsible for the untimely death of hundreds of innocent people threw it in the dustbin and did not take any action against the guilty.