With process of recording statement of victims is still on, Justice (Retd) Vishnu Sahai seeks further extension of his one member commission for six more months.
The two-month deadline to submit the report already expired. The commission has been making enquiry into into Muzaffarnagar riots that left over five dozen people dead besides leaving over 50000 homeless.
"The process to seek further extension of Commission is also underway and a letter was dispatched to State government as more time needed to look into each and every aspects of the riots", Vishnu Sahai told the reporters. Justice Sahai is presently busy recording statements of the victims particularly staying in the relief camps.
It may be mentioned that the one-member judicial inquiry commission of Justice Vishnu Sahai was constituted by the government on September 9 to probe the Muzaffarnagar violence starting from Kawal incident on August 27 till September 9. The Commission was also asked to look into administrative lapses, if any, in controlling the violence. The report was supposed to be submitted to the government within two months. The Commission has reportedly received more than 350 written statements and has also visited Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Meerut and Saharanpur districts affected by communal violence in September.